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Strathaven Conservation Area Management Plan Contents 1.0 Introduction ________________________________________________________________________ The conservation area ____________________________________________________________________ Statutory and advisory context ____________________________________________________________ Conservation Area Management Plan (CAMP) ______________________________________________ South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan _________________________________________________ Conservation Area Appraisal (CAA) ________________________________________________________ 2.0 Key issues __________________________________________________________________________ Main challenges identified in Conservation Area Appraisal (CAA) _____________________________ Main Issues arising from Conservation Area Appraisal (CAA) __________________________________ 3.0 Strategic objectives and policy _______________________________________________________ Assessment of development proposals _____________________________________________________ Regeneration and enhancement ___________________________________________________________ Protection through education and outreach ________________________________________________ Support for building owners ______________________________________________________________ Archaeology ____________________________________________________________________________ Monitoring and review ___________________________________________________________________ 4.0 Further Information _________________________________________________________________ Sources of financial assistance _____________________________________________________________ Bibliography ____________________________________________________________________________ Useful contact ___________________________________________________________________________ 5.0 Appendix ___________________________________________________________________________ Strathaven Conservation Area Design Guide ________________________________________________ Introduction ________________________________________________________________________ How to use this design guide _________________________________________________________ Maintenance ________________________________________________________________________ Roofs _______________________________________________________________________________ Chimneys and chimney pots __________________________________________________________ Gutters and downpipes ______________________________________________________________ Public services, burglar alarms and satellite dishes _____________________________________ Walls – paint and stonework __________________________________________________________ Windows and doors _________________________________________________________________ Inappropriate alterations ______________________________________________________________ Repairing windows and doors _________________________________________________________ Replacement windows and doors for listed buildings _____________________________________ Replacement windows and doors for unlisted buildings in the conservation area _____________ Extensions, porches and outbuildings _________________________________________________ Dormers ____________________________________________________________________________ Boundary treatments ________________________________________________________________ Trees and green character ___________________________________________________________ Shopfronts __________________________________________________________________________ General design principles _____________________________________________________________ Fascias ______________________________________________________________________________ Pilasters _____________________________________________________________________________ Stallrisers ____________________________________________________________________________ Windows and doors __________________________________________________________________ Colour and materials _________________________________________________________________ Alarm boxes and emergency power switches ____________________________________________ Canopies and awnings ________________________________________________________________ Security features _____________________________________________________________________ Signs and advertisements ____________________________________________________________ General design principles _____________________________________________________________ Fascia signs__________________________________________________________________________ Upper floor signage __________________________________________________________________ Projecting signs ______________________________________________________________________ What permissions may I need? _______________________________________________________ Glossary of terms ___________________________________________________________________ Photographs: Peter Drummond Architects Ltd. and South Lanarkshire Council Map Data: Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. Crown copyright and database right 2014. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number (100020730 2008) Copyright: Peter Drummond Architects Ltd. unless specifically stated otherwise. The content of this document may be reproduced in all or part subject to identification of the author and copyright holder, with the exception of Ordnance Survey material which will be subject to a separate licence. Strathaven Conservation Area Management Plan (CAMP) 2017 Figure 1-1: Strathaven, Common Green, February 2013 (Peter Drummond Architects) 1.0 Introduction 1.1 In recognition of the quality of the historic 1.2 The Strathaven Conservation Area townscape and, as part of a series of initiatives Management Plan identifies the special character supporting an application for funding under of Strathaven’s historic core, assesses how it a Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme might be vulnerable to change and sets out (CARS), the Rural Development Trust in guidelines for future development. It is an partnership with South Lanarkshire Council, essential reference tool for anyone managing or Avondale Civic Society, Strathaven Community developing properties within Strathaven. It seeks Council, Strathaven Business Association to allow for new development whilst ensuring and Rotary Club of Strathaven (Strathaven that the historic townscape is protected and Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme that a strong local community is fostered. It sets Partnership), appointed Peter Drummond out policies for the continued preservation and Architects to prepare a Conservation Area enhancement of the Strathaven Conservation Management Plan (CAMP).This work was Area, the delivery of which will be considered carried out in 2014. and determined by South Lanarkshire Council. The CAMP and its associated Design Guide is a material consideration in the determination of all applications for planning and listed building consent within the Strathaven Conservation Area. Strathaven Conservation Area Management Plan (CAMP) 2017 The conservation area 1.3 Strathaven Conservation Area was 1.6 The main effects of designation as a designated by East Kilbride District Council in conservation area are: June 1976. The conservation area was created because Strathaven was considered a good (a) South Lanarkshire Council has to have example of a small Burgh with a medieval special regard to maintaining the character street pattern that had then been overlain by and amenity of the area when determining Georgian and Victorian urban extensions. applications for planning and listed building consent; 1.4 Strathaven Conservation Area is located (b) Planning applications likely to affect the at the heart of the town, being roughly centred character of the area will be advertised for on the area around the Common Green. public comment; The area takes the form of a series of spokes radiating out from this hub. Its southern (c) The total or substantial demolition of boundary is defined by the former railway unlisted buildings within conservation line before heading north-west along Todshill areas requires consent; Street. It then steps around the back of the (d) Trees within the conservation area cannot gardens of 24 Todshill where it heads along be lopped, topped or felled without the back of the properties to the south of prior written notification to the planning Kirk Street. Here it turns to the north before authority to allow it to consider the heading back into the town along the back of request. the properties addressing Townhead Street and Green Streets. The boundary then extends in a northern peninsula that takes in Barn Conservation area status does not prevent Street and Glasgow Road before branching change, but rather manages it in a sustainable at right angles to take in the properties along manner. Commercial Road. Here the boundary heads south to the rear of the properties on the east side of Waterside Street before crossing Castle Street to the south of the Telephone Exchange to take in Strathaven (or Avondale) Castle and the Town Mill. 1.5 Within the conservation area there are 383 buildings. Of these, one is a Scheduled Monument, 13 buildings (including the Boo Backit Brig) are category ‘B’ listed and 22 are category ‘C’ listed, reflecting the national, regional and local importance of the buildings and structures. The largest proportion of these buildings is located within the vicinity of the Cross, Common Green