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North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide Introduction 5 NNoorrtthh PPeennnniinneess AAOONNBB BBuuiillddiinngg DDeessiiggnn GGuuiiddee North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and European Geopark © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Durham County Council. LA 100049055. 2011. Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 5 AONBs and their Statutory Framework .............................................................................. 8 Policy Context ...................................................................................................................... 10 The Landscape and Buildings of the AONB ...................................................................... 13 Design .................................................................................................................................... 29 Repair and Maintenance .................................................................................................... 33 Alterations and Extensions .................................................................................................... 43 Conversions .......................................................................................................................... 53 New Building ........................................................................................................................ 63 Landscape, Planting and External Detail .......................................................................... 85 Sustainable Construction .................................................................................................... 103 Appendix 1: Local Planning Authorities ............................................................................ 117 Appendix 2: Supplementary Planning Documents .......................................................... 118 Appendix 3: Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas .................................................... 119 Appendix 4: Tree and Hedgerow Protection .................................................................... 121 Appendix 5: Protected Species .......................................................................................... 123 Appendix 6: Invasive Species .............................................................................................. 125 North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide Introduction 5 Aim and Objectives The main objectives of the Guidelines are: development that complements the character of the landscape and helps This document is intended to provide flexible • to help those undertaking building stimulate economic activity whilst increasing guidance on building design in the North developments or maintenance works, of the sustainability of communities. Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty any scale, to conserve and enhance the (AONB). It is intended to help all of those who natural beauty of the North Pennines; and The Guidelines do not deal with the principle affect the built environment of the AONB: • to stimulate the highest standards of of major development proposals or land-use planners, developers, builders and design,conservation and development. planning matters beyond design and householders. It is designed to help conservation of buildings, as these are implement the planning, design and subject to the policies of local authorities and conservation policies relating to the AONB Scope and Purpose of other guidance. that are contained within the Local The issues for the conservation of the Development Frameworks (LDF) of local character of the area come less from major authorities. It seeks to help generate development than from the piecemeal This document has been prepared using increased consistency of approach towards erosion of distinctiveness that can information from a range of background matters of building design and building accompany small-scale change. One of the documents, including national and regional conservation across the AONB, so that principal ways in which the natural beauty guidance and external technical planning policies and development control and special character of the North Pennines documents. Some of the evidence base is decisions continue to conserve its natural can be conserved is through the application taken from the North Pennines AONB beauty while delivering essential of consistent and appropriate design and Management Plan and also from the AONB development, including helping homeowners conservation guidelines that are flexible Partnership's existing building design carryout important work to their individual enough to be workable, but that guidance documents which it replaces. This properties. complement the area's designation as a document is undergoing a comprehensive landscape of national importance. This does process of consultation with Local Planning not mean placing restrictions on Authorities, statutory consultatees, a range of development, innovative design or new relevant agencies, Parish Councils and the ideas, but actively promoting essential wider public. North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide Introduction How to use this document Designers, developers and landowners should give regard to the guidance when This document should be considered in preparing their plans, proposals and conjunction with the relevant policies and strategies. Local authority planning officers Supplementary Planning Documents of Local should have regard to the extent to which Development Frameworks. It supersedes and development proposals reflect the guidance replaces the Agricultural Buildings Design (where possible) when assessing planning Guide and the AONB design guide on Good applications. Practice in the Design, Adaptation and Maintenance of Buildings. Much of the guidance in this document relates to works which require planning permission. Some guidance also relates to works that will require building regulations consent or consents under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act [as amended] 1990 etc. Before considering any work concerning or affecting buildings in the AONB you should contact your local planning authority (LPA) to confirm whether planning permission or other consents are required. Contact details are given in Appendix 1. Information on Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas can be found in Appendix 3. North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide Introduction Adopting this guidance as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) As an SPD this document will relate to a policy within the LPA’s Core strategy DPD or saved policy from a Local Plan dealing with landscape protection within the AONB, its quality and character. It is an expression in more detail of what this core policy really means and how it is implemented in practice. Also, prior to adoption, each authority has to demonstrate that they complied with the relevant procedures for the preparation of LDDs. Any consultation carried out needs to be in conformity with their Statement of Community Involvement (SCI). Adopting this guidance as a Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) As an alternative to adoption as an SPD, local authorities may wish to endorse this document as supplementary guidance produced by another body under the provisions of PPS 12 (6.3) Supplementary guidance to assist the delivery of development may be prepared by a government agency, Regional Planning Body or a County Council or other body (e.g. AONB committee) where this would provide economies in production and the avoidance of duplication e.g. where the information in it would apply to areas greater than single districts. Such guidance would not be a supplementary planning document. However, if the same disciplines of consultation and sustainability appraisal (where necessary) are applied, such information might, subject to the circumstances of a particular case, be afforded a weight commensurate with that of SPDs in decision making. This may be more likely if the district/borough/city councils to which it is intended to apply endorse the guidance, or if the document is an amplification of RSS policy and it has been prepared by an RPB. North Pennines AONB Building Design Guide 8 AONBs and their Statutory Framework The North Pennines AONB is one of a family of industries and of the economic and social AONBs established in England and Wales needs of local communities. Particular Category V Protected Landscape/ under the National Parks and Access to the regard should be paid to promoting Seascape: a protected area Countryside Act 1949. Along with National sustainable forms of social and economic managed mainly for landscape/ Parks, AONBs are ‘protected landscapes’ development that in themselves conserve seascape conservation and recreation. formally recognised in statute as representing and enhance the environment; and the finest countryside in England and Wales, • Recreation is not an objective of An area of land, with coast and sea as appropriate, where the where special policies should apply to designation, but the demand for recreation interaction of people and nature safeguard, conserve and manage the should be met so far as this is consistent with over time has produced an area of countryside for the benefit of this and future the conservation of natural beauty and the generations. distinct character with significant needs of agriculture, forestry and other aesthetic, ecological and/or cultural There are 40 AONBs covering 18% of England uses. value, and often with high
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