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Lord Street Conservation Area Character Statement APPENDIX 15 Committee: Planning Date Of Meeting: 12 th March 2003 Title of Report: Lord Street Conservation Area Character Statement Report of: R J Gibbons, Planning Director Contact Officer: Mike Davies Telephone 0151 934 3574 This report contains Yes No Confidential information √ Exempt information by virtue of paragraph(s) ……… of Part 1 of √ Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 Is the decision on this report DELEGATED? √ Purpose of Report: To seek the committee’s endorsement of the contents of the Lord Street Conservation Area Character Statement. Recommendation(s): That the Committee (i) Approves the extension to the Lord Street Conservation Area as shown on the attached plan; (ii) Adopts the Lord Street Conservation Area Character Statement as supplementary planning guidance. SEFTON COUNCIL Page 1 D:\Moderngov\Data\Committ\Intranet\Planning Committee\20030312\Agenda\appendix 150.DOC APPENDIX 15 Corporate Objective Monitoring Corporate Objective Impact Positive Neutral Negative 1 Regenerating the Borough through Partnership √ 2 Raising the standard of Education & Lifelong Learning √ 3 Promoting Safer and More Secure Communities √ 4 Creating a Healthier, Cleaner & Greener Environment √ through policies for Sustainable Development 5 Strengthening Local Democracy through Community √ Participation 6 Promoting Social Inclusion, Equality of Access and √ Opportunity 7 Improving the Quality of Council Services √ Financial Implications None Departments consulted in the preparation of this Report None List of Background Papers relied upon in the preparation of this report Sefton UDP Planning Policy Guidance Note 15 – Planning and the Historic Environment Background PPG 15 encourages local authorities to produce Character Appraisals for its Conservation Areas in order to better protect them from unsympathetic change. The Conservation Area Character Statement is required to support the Townscape Heritage Initiative bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. SEFTON COUNCIL Page 2 D:\Moderngov\Data\Committ\Intranet\Planning Committee\20030312\Agenda\appendix 150.DOC APPENDIX 15 SEFTON COUNCIL Page 3 D:\Moderngov\Data\Committ\Intranet\Planning Committee\20030312\Agenda\appendix 150.DOC APPENDIX 15 Lord Street Conservation Area Statement Planning guidance for owners, occupiers and developers. Preface A Conservation Area is “an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which is it is desirable to preserve or enhance” (Section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. This statement provides guidance on how the preservation and enhancement of the character and appearance of the Lord Street Conservation Area can be achieved. The Council as Local Planning Authority is required to “formulate and publish proposals for the preservation and enhancement of the character or appearance of any parts of their area which are conservation areas” (Section 71 of the Act). This statement fulfils this statutory duty. In making a decision on an application for development within a conservation area, “special attention shall be paid to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of that area” (Section 72 of the Act). While this should ensure that harmful change is not allowed, some changes, normally not requiring planning permission (known as permitted development) could still damage the special qualities of the area. Local Authorities have special powers to issue directions removing certain permitted development rights from properties if it can be shown that it is necessary. This statement should be read in conjunction with the most recent version of the Sefton Unitary Development Plan and national planning policy guidance, especially Planning Policy Guidance Note 15 (PPG15) – “Planning and the Historic Environment”. SEFTON COUNCIL Page 4 D:\Moderngov\Data\Committ\Intranet\Planning Committee\20030312\Agenda\appendix 150.DOC APPENDIX 15 Introduction Lord Street is the principal street as well as the civic and commercial focus of the seaside resort of Southport. Lord Street is of fundamental importance in both historic and architectural terms to the character of the town. It has a strong sense of unity and overall design quality and contains extremely fine examples of Victorian architecture (Sefton Borough Council, Urban Design Framework and Strategy, Austin Smith Lord, 2002) The area contains a wide variety of buildings dating from the early 19 th Century to the late 20 th Century and consists of a mixture of shops, offices, leisure facilities, hotels and private dwellings. Lord Street is noted for its grand layout, impressive architecture, variety of attractive public gardens and spaces and its high quality range of shops and leisure facilities. It is also widely known for the almost continuous row of glazed canopies, projecting over the pavement from the properties on the seaward side of the road. The conservation area has a very high concentration of listed buildings and a considerable number of other buildings of architectural or historic interest. The Lord Street Conservation Area was designated in 1973. It is situated in Southport town centre and directly abuts the boundary of the Promenade Conservation Area, along West Street and Stanley Street. The boundary of the conservation area runs from the junction of Leicester Street and Manchester Road in the north east to the junction with Duke Street in the south west. The conservation area boundary also includes the ends of all the side streets leading off Lord Street between these junctions. The major part of the side streets on the seaward side of Lord Street is included in the Promenade Conservation Area, as the character of the buildings is consistent with this area. Surrounding the conservation area is a mixture of residential, commercial and leisure uses with the Fire Station and Magistrates Courts situated immediately beyond the north eastern boundary. SEFTON COUNCIL Page 5 D:\Moderngov\Data\Committ\Intranet\Planning Committee\20030312\Agenda\appendix 150.DOC APPENDIX 15 History The name of Southport was adopted around 1798. The settlement was originally known as South Hawes and until it was developed into a major seaside resort in the 19 th Century, it consisted of scattered farmers’ and fishermen’s huts set in marshes and grazing land situated behind a sandy beach and a belt of sand dunes. Sea bathing became increasingly fashionable during the 18 th Century and was recommended by medical men as a cure for a variety of ailments. Curtailment of continental travel as a result of the French war also helped to make seaside holidays in England more fashionable and the opening of the Leeds and Liverpool canal in 1774 gave Southport an early advantage over potential rivals. The local district acquired a reputation for its sea air and its mild and equitable climate and the first sea bathers stayed at inns in Churchtown, travelling to the beach in carts. Mr Sutton, the landlord of the Black Bull Inn at Churchtown built a wooden bathing house on the dunes around 1792 to provide shelter, changing and refreshment rooms for bathers. In 1798 he built a hotel at the southern end of Lord Street and the name South Port is believed to have been chosen at the opening celebration. A year earlier Sarah Walmsley, a widow from Wigan built “Belle View” a large cottage to accommodate paying guests, which was followed by the construction of a number of other inns and marine villas including Willow Cottage, West Hill, Belmont Cottage, South Hill, Nile Villa, and Beach Cottage. The two landowners of the area divided up the land and leased building plots at modest rents. Early development was carried out at random within the dunes, where the buildings were often engulfed by drifting sand. As the town became established as a resort, the original cottagers smartened up their homes to cater for the “economy class” visitor. By 1809 Southport was being described as a “fashionable watering place”. Lord Street was originally known as “the main street”. The name evolved from “Lord’s Street” which referred to the two lords of the manor (Hesketh and Bold) who collaborated in its formation, in order to facilitate the proper development of what had formerly been an unproductive area of their estates. It was laid out early in the 19 th Century and ended at Sutton’s hotel adjacent to the Birkdale boundary The street was laid out with a gentle curve on its south eastern side, along the line of a series of dune slacks or pools which flooded after heavy rain. These pools develop naturally behind the main belt of sand dunes, and are typical features of the Sefton coastline. A very wide gap was left between the built up frontages, probably to avoid the frequently, water logged ground of the former dune slack and to incorporate randomly built early dwellings into the frontage. The original landform is still visible in the gentle rise from Lord Street to the Promenade. Built along the edges of the dune slack the Lord Street frontage provides the same sense of protection and enclosure which can be experienced in the undeveloped dune area at Ainsdale. SEFTON COUNCIL Page 6 D:\Moderngov\Data\Committ\Intranet\Planning Committee\20030312\Agenda\appendix 150.DOC APPENDIX 15 The marshy ground was originally left open, but when the landowner Sir Bold Houghton, installed a drainage ditch, he insisted that the adjacent owners and occupiers on the south east side of the street, fence off the land in front of their houses to create individual, long gardens. Small bridges were built over the drainage ditch to give access to the properties. These garden extensions were subsequently made into a series of public gardens laid out in a Gardenesque style with pools and fountains. The construction of a sea-wall and Promenade was started in 1835 to protect the outer sandhills from the spring tides, thus allowing property to be built and to provide the resort with an attractive walk way. This was followed by the laying out of the grid of streets between the Promenade and the Lord Street.
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