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Halton Village Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan 1 HALTON VILLAGE CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN PUBLIC CONSULTATION DRAFT 2008 This document has been produced in partnership with Donald Insall Associates ltd, as it is based upon their original appraisal completed in april 2008. if you wish to see a copy of the original study, please contact Halton Borough Council's planning and policy division. Cover Photo courtesy of Norton Priory Museum Trust and Donald Insall Associates. Operational Director Environmental Health and Planning Environment Directorate Halton Borough Council Rutland House Halton Lea Runcorn WA7 2GW www.halton.gov.uk/forwardplanning 2 CONTENTS APPENDICES PREFACE 1.7 NEGATIVE FACTORS A Key Features Plans Background to the Study 1.7.1 Overview B Gazetteer of Listed Scope and Structure of the Study 1.7.2 Recent Development Buildings Existing Designations and Legal 1.7.3 Unsympathetic Extensions C Plan Showing Contribution Framework for Conservation Areas 1.7.4 Unsympathetic Alterations of Buildings to the and the Powers of the Local Authority 1.7.5 Development Pressures Character of the What Happens Next? 1.7.6 Loss Conservation Area 1.8 CONCLUSION D Plan Showing Relative Ages PART 1 CONSERVATION AREA of Buildings APPRAISAL PART 2 CONSERVATION AREA E Plans Showing Existing and MANAGEMENT PLAN Proposed Conservation 1.1 LOCATION Area Boundaries 1.1.1 Geographic Location 2.1 INTRODUCTION F Plan Showing Area for 1.1.2 Topography and Geology 2.2 GENERAL MANAGEMENT Proposed Article 4 1.1.3 General Usage PROPOSALS Directions for Roofs & Area of 1.1.4 Conservation Area and Study 2.2.1 Opportunities for Enhancement Particular Sensitivity for Area Boundary • New Development and Gap the Setting of Castle Hill 1.2 HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT Sites G Plan Showing Landscape 1.2.1 Early History and Origins • Detrimental Buildings Features, Public Open 1.2.2 The Castle and Castle Hill • Materials Spaces and Views 1.2.3 Development of the Village 2.2.2 Reinstatement of Lost H Plan Showing Village Centre Between the 16th and 19th Features and Repairs Buildings Lost Since 1st Centuries 2.2.3 Landscaping and Streetscape Edition OS Plan (1870s) 1.2.4 20th Century History of • Trees and Planting I (1)Historic Plans – 1st Edition Halton Village and Surrounding • Paths and Surfaces OS Areas of Runcorn New Town • Street Furniture and Signage I (2)Historic Plans – 2nd Edition OS 1.2.5 Archaeology and 2.2.4 Community Involvement J Table Showing Building Archaeological Potential 2.2.5 Grants and Listings Descriptions and Photo 1.3 LANDSCAPE AND VISTAS 2.2.6 Repairs and Notices References 1.3.1 Setting and Relationship 2.2.7 Conservation Area Homeowners K The Brow, Runcorn New with the Surrounding Area Guide and Conservation Trail Town Promotion Pamphlet 1.3.2 Nature and Relationship of 2.3 SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT (Scanned Document) Spaces PROJECTS 1.3.3 Green Spaces and Planting 2.3.1 Boundary Amendments 1.4 TOWNSCAPE AND 2.3.2 Article 4 Directions PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS 2.3.3 Project Areas 1.4.1 Townscape • Halton Castle and Castle 1.4.2 Principal Buildings and Features Hill 1.4.3 Boundaries, Surfaces and • Castle Hotel Street Furniture • Main Street 1.5 ARCHITECTURE, • The Common MATERIALS AND DETAILS • Archaeological Research 1.5.1 Prominent Styles 2.4 SUMMARY AND SCHEDULE 1.5.2 Leading Architects OF MANAGEMENT 1.5.3 Materials PROPOSALS 1.5.4 Typical Features and Details 2.4.1 Table of Management Proposals 1.6 CHARACTER ASSESSMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 LIST OF FIGURES AND DIAGRAMS 1. The view from Halton Castle 21.(a) The Gate, Halton Common 34.Examples of hard cement mortar towards the River Mersey (b) Hill House, Castle Road and damaging stonework: (above) Hard 2. The location of Halton Village 22.Paths on Castle Hill cementitious mortar joints 3. The existing Conservation Area 23.(left) The impact of block paving damaging a stone boundary wall and its listed buildings on the visual character of the and (right) Damaging and 4. The Buck Brothers etching of Conservation Area; (middle) Small unattractive cementitious render Halton Castle, 1727 granite setts used to define corners repairs 5. a The Seneschal’s house, Main in Halton Brow; (right) Stone walls 35.Examples of inappropriate pointing: Street and b the Parish Library, edging a road within the Re-pointing of a sandstone wall Castle Road Conservation Area where the mortar joints appear 6. Images of Halton Village from the 24.Existing street furniture and signage over-dominant and strap or ribbon Runcorn New Town Master Plan in Halton Village, Sign on Holt pointing 7. Map showing the extent of 270 Lane; bench on Millennium Green; 36.The effects of stone cladding and degree panoramic view from Castle lamppost on Main Street; and road pebbledashing on individual houses Hill to the north, west and east sign for Castle Road and the overall street scene 8. The view from Halton Castle 25.Examples of architectural styles 37.Images showing changes to the towards the bowling green and present within Halton Village: village: (top) View from outside the Millennium Green in the (clockwise from top) Elizabethan; Norton Arms showing a thatched foreground and the Mersey Estuary Georgian; Victorian terraces and a cottage and an agricultural building in the background Victorian house. that no longer exist and (bottom) 9. The view from Halton Castle 26.Illustration of some of the different Looking down Main Street from towards Main Street, with window treatments within Halton the current Methodist Church, the Frodsham and Helsby in the Village: Timber casement with building on the right is now background stone hoodmould; simple sash replaced with open land in Town 10.The view from Castle Hill towards widow;leaded lights within stone Park Lodge Lane subframe; small timber casements 38.The existing British Legion Club on 11.The view from Main Street to within timber framed building Main Street Halton Brow 27.Character zones in Halton Village 39.Effects of removing cladding from a 12.The view from Asda to St. Mary’s and the wider locality terraced house on Main Street Church and Halton Castle 28.20th Century housing at The 40.The importance of trees to the 13.(above)A historic photograph of Common, off Pump Lane setting of many of Halton’s historic Halton Castle from Halton Brow 29.Examples of extensions and buildings and (below) a contemporary view additions to older buildings that 41.Map showing potential locations for of the castle have changed their character or gateway signage in Halton Village 14.The views of St Mary’s Church setting 42.The Lodge on Main Street and from Main Street 30.The effects of replacement UPVC Fletcher’s Row 15.Map of Main Street streetscape windows on the character of 43.The effect of gradual changes to 16.(above) Exposed rock strata and buildings in the Conservation Area buildings along Main Street (below) gorse growing on Castle 31.The effects of replacement doors Hill on the character of buildings in BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 17.Green spaces along Main Street Halton Village 18.(a) Lych Gate marking the entrance 32.The effects of replacement roofs This document has been produced in to Halton Cemetery from Holt on the character of the village’s partnership with Donald Insall Lane and (b) Halton Cemetery roofscape Associates Ltd, as it is based upon 19.Housing at Halton Brow 33.The effect of rooflights on the their original appraisal completed in 20.Examples of existing shop fronts on roofscape of a row of terraced Main Street housing 4 PREFACE April 2008. If you wish to see a copy • Local details must pay special attention to the of the original study, please contact • Contribution made by green desirability of preserving or enhancing Halton Borough Council’s Planning and spaces, trees, hedges, etc the character or appearance of such Policy Division. • Setting of the Conservation Area areas. The Secretary of State has the and its relationship with the view that this should also be a material The purpose of this document is to surrounding landscape consideration in determining provide a survey and appraisal of the • Extent of loss, intrusion or damage applications that affect the setting or character and fabric of the existing • Existence of any neutral areas views into and out of conservation Conservation Area (Part 1) and areas. propose a management plan to advise Part 1 of document has been on necessary changes and additional structured to encompass these areas Halton Borough Council sets out protection or improvement measures of study, which then feed into Part 2’s policies regarding conservation areas required to preserve and enhance management proposals. within Chapter 2, policy BE12 and Halton Village’s special character (Part paragraphs 34-45 of the Halton 2). EXISTING DESIGNATIONS AND Unitary Development Plan (UDP), LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR adopted in April 2005. Due to the SCOPE AND STRUCTURE OF THE CONSERVATION AREAS AND THE recent introduction of a new planning STUDY POWERS OF THE LOCAL system, Halton Council is currently AUTHORITY going through a process of replacing The scope of this Conservation Area the UDP with the Halton Local Appraisal and Management Plan is The statutory definition of a Development Framework (LDF). The based on the guidelines published by conservation area is ‘an area of special LDF will include new policies in English Heritage (‘Guidance on architectural or historic interest, the relation to the protection and Conservation Area Appraisals’ and character or appearance of which it is enhancement of the historic ‘Guidance on the Management of desirable to preserve or enhance.’ environment in Halton.
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