DRAETHEN CONSERVATIONAREA DESIGN GUIDE Adopted Plan CANLLAW DYLUNIO ARDAL GADWRAETH DRAETHEN Cynllun Mabwysiedig Centre of Draethen (CADG 1.) PlanningDivision,Directorateof TechnicalServices Is-AdranGynllunio,CyfadranGwasanaethauTechnegol Draethen Conservation Area Design Guide Draethen Conservation Area Design Guide Adopted Plan Canllaw Dylunio Ardal Gadwraeth Draethen Cynllun Mabwysiedig Contents PageNo. 1 Introduction 1 2 Character Analysis of the Conservation Area 3 3 Building Guidelines 4 4 Materials Guidelines 5 5 Draethen Local Policies 10 6 Article 4 Direction 10 7 Grant Aid for Improvements 11 8 Further Advice 11 Map 1 Draethen in 1919 12 Map 2 Historic Village Area and Outer Areas of Draethen 13 Conservation Area Table 1 Draethen Building Materials 6 Appendix 1 Descriptions of Buildings in the Historic Village 14 Area (CADG 1) December 2000 Rhagfyr 2000 Draethen Conservation Area Design Guide SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING GUIDANCE DEVELOPMENT DESIGN GUIDES 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Conservation Area Design Guides are part of a package of documents which emerge from, and support the 'Caerphilly county borough -Unitary Development Plan 1996 - 2011'.The main role of the Conservation Area Design Guide is to set out in detail the design standard which new development is expected to meet in Conservation Areas during the plan period. A series of 14 Conservation Area Design Guides will be produced to provide guidance and assistance to developers, architects and householders. The following Conservation Area Design Guides are included in the series :- CADG1. Draethen CADG2. Bute town CADG3. Garden Suburbs, Pontywaun CADG4. Gelligaer CADG5. Gelligroes CADG6. Gellihaf CADG7. Groeswen CADG8. Llanbradach CADG9. ~aesycwmmerniengoed CADGI0. Nelson CADGll. The Terrace Rhymney CADG12. Tredomen CADG13. Ruppera Castle and Park CADGI4. Cwmcam Memorial Park 2 THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2.1 The UDP is the only document which the planning authority is statutorily required to produce as the framework of the land-use element of the planning system. However, the planning system is far more than a development control framework, it also has a major role in community regeneration, in conserving and enhancing the built and natural environment, in setting quality standards and in encouraging development. Therefore, a package of documents has been prepared which strengthen and support the Unitary Development Plan in achieving these roles. 2.2 There are three types of supporting documents: . Background Papers which set out the detailed information and reasoning behind the policies and proposals (Topic Papers and Environmental Appraisal). Action Plans which set out a framework for development and improvement of specific locations linking management proposals and action programs to the land-use framework in the UDP (Town Centre Action Plans, Conservation Area Enhancement Plans). Design Guides which set out in detail the standards which development conforming to the policy criteria of the UDP is expected to meet in terms oflayout and design (Development Design Guides, Conservation Area Design Guides and Site Development Briefs). Draethen Conservation Area Design Guide 2.3 The relationship of supporting documents and strategies to the UDP is shown below. ~ / topic environmental papers U.D.P. appraisal / ~ background design action I papers C) guides C> plans 2.4 The Unitary Development Plan and all its supporting documents and strategies, are underpinned by the following 'Guiding Principles': . Good Design; . Sustaining the Integrity and Viability of Settlements; and . Sustainability. The Conservation Area Design Guides provide detailed guidance on how elements of these principles can be achieved in all new development in the individual Conservation Areas. 3 PUBLICITY AND CONSULTATION 3.1 The purpose of consultation on the Draft versions of the Conservation Area Design Guides is to ensure that the interests of local people, and interested parties are taken fully into account. The consultation process allows representations to be made, suggesting ways in which the contents of the guidance can be positively improved to protect and enhance the character of the Conservation Areas. The Draft versions of the Conservation Area Design Guides will be the subject of a 4 week consultation exercise. 3.2 The comments made in respect of the 'Draft' ConservationArea Design Guides will be reported to the Council's Planning (policy) Committee which will decide on their final contents. The final version of the guidance will be adopted as council policy and become a material consideration in determining planning applications. Draethen Conservation Area Design Guide 1. INTRODUCTION National policy context. Status of this document. 1.7 Conservation Areas were first introduced 1.1 This Design Guide is intended as by the Civic Amenities Act 1967. Section Supplementary Planning Guidance to the 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Unitary Development Plan -the Council's Conservation Areas) Act 1990 imposes a main land use planning policy document. duty on local authorities "to determine which parts of their area are of special 1.2 Conservation Areas are identified and architectural or historic interest, the protected by the U.D.P. in broad policy character or appearance of which it is terms. In particular, Policy HE4 of the desirable to preserve or enhance" U.D.P. states:- Draethen was declared a Conservation Area under the terms of the Act on 30th HE 4 DEVELOPMENT, CHANGE OF USE, March 1973. OR DEMOLITION WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED IN THE FOLLOWING Development plan context CONSERVATION AREAS WHERE IT PRESERVES OR ENHANCES THE 1.8 The following policies in the Approved CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE OF Rhyrnney Valley District Plan and the THE AREA: .......... Pre-Deposit Draft of the Councils' Unitary 2 DRAETHEN. Development Plan 1996 - 20 11 (dated 1998) are particularly relevant in the 1.3 This Design Guide analyses the qualities protection of the built heritage of and features which give Draethen Draethen Conservation Area. However, Conservation Area its special character policies relating to more general matters and provides specific guidelines and local in Draethen can be found in other policies designed to ensure that this chapters of both of the above documents. character is retained. RHYMNEY VALLEY DISTRICT LOCAL lA At a later date the Design Guide will be PLAN 1991 -2006 complemented by a Conservation Area Approved 1996 Enhancement Plan, which analyses the village and puts forward proposals for the Conservation Areas area's enhancement. BE6 DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS IN CONSERVATION .AREAS WILL Purpose of the Draethen Design Guide ONLY BE PERMITTED WHERE THEY PRESERVE OR ENHANCE THE 1.5 The Draethen Design Guide sets out in CHARACTER AND detail the standards which development ARCHITECTURAL MERIT OF THE conforming to the policy criteria of the AREA. Unitary Development Plan (U.D.P.) is expected to meet within the Conservation Other Policies Area, principally in terms of layout and design. Ce634 -Disused Limestone Quarry South West of Machen - Draethen 1.6 It contains the local design policies, Be626 -Protected Open Space - Draethen. additional to those contained in the H602- CommittedHousingSite,TheSawMill, U.D.P. and gives a clear indication of Draethen appropriate elements of urban and Ce604-SpecialLandscapeAreaSouthofRudry architectural design, and in particular on and Machen preferred building materials, colours and L3 - Protected Cyclepath or Footpath Route styles which should be considered when restoring existing buildings as well as when proposing new development. 1 Draethen Conservation Area Design Guide CAERPHILLY COUNTY BOROUGH Other Policies I COUNCIL UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 1996-2011 (currently the Pre-Deposit CI0(185) -Site ofImportance for Nature Draft dated June 1998) I Conservation at the disused Draethen Quarry Historic Environment I C11(17) -Special Landscape Area to the South of Rudry and Machen. HEl DEVELOPMENT AND PROPOSALS TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE THE I Background QUALITY AND CHARACTER OF THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT WILL 1.9 Draethen village, in the community of NORMALLY BE PERMITTED. I Rudry, is located about six miles east of Caerphilly Town Centre and lies within HE3 DEMOLITION- OF'BUILDINGg-- the valley bfthe Nant-y-Draethen stream, WHICH ARE LISTED OR MAKE A "I at its confluence with the River Rhymney. POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE CHARACTER OR APPEARANCE OF A 1.10 The early development of the village CONSERVATION AREA WILL NOT centred around the old watermill, Melin BE PERMITTED UNLESS THE Draethen, (see Map 1), now disused and BUILDING IS STRUCTURALLY obscured by a storage building. The UNSAFE AND CANNOT BE MADE present day village containing 38 SOUND FOR TECHNICAL OR dwellings (November 1998), is strung out ECONOMIC REASONS. SUCH along the Rudry road, with a scattering of APPROVAL WILL BE SUBJECT TO A dwellings along the roads out of the CONDITION THAT, BEFORE village towards Michaelston-y-Fedw to DEMOLITION BEGINS, PLANNING the south and Machen to the north. PERMISSION IS OBTAINED AND A CONTRACT LET FOR APPROPRIATE 1.11 The village used to support a number of REPLACEMENT OR commercial activities Le. a saw mill, REDEVELOPMENT. quarry, trout farm, garden centre and dog kennels, although, these uses have now HE4 DEVELOPMENT, CHANCE OF USE, I ceased. OR DEMOLITION WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED IN THE FOLLOWING CONSERVATION AREAS WHERE IT PRESERVES OR ENHANCES THE CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE OF THE AREA: .......... 2. DRAETHEN. HE5 DEVELOPMENT WITHIN