HUNSINGORE Conservation Area Character Appraisal
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HUNSINGORE Conservation Area Character Appraisal Hunsingore Conservation Area Character Appraisalapproved - Approved 21 September21 September 2011 2011p. 1 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 2 2. Planning policy framework ............................................................................................ 2 3 Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4 Location & landscape setting ........................................................................................ 4 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 6 6. The form & character of buildings ................................................................................. 8 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 12 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 13 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary .............................................................................. 14 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 15 Map 4: Landscape analysis ............................................................................................. 16 Appendix A: 1 Management strategy .................................................................................................. 17 2 Monitoring & review ..................................................................................................... 17 3 Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 17 4 Conservation Area boundary review ........................................................................... 17 5 The management of change ....................................................................................... 18 6 Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 18 7 Landscape Issues ...................................................................................................... 20 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................ 22 Appendix B: Public consultation ..................................................................................... 23 Appendix C: Further reading .......................................................................................... 23 This and other Planning documents are or will be made available in large copy print, audiocassette, Braille or languages other than English. If you require the document in one of these formats, please contact us (tel. 01423 556586 or email [email protected] ) p. 2 Hunsingore Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 21 September 2011 1 Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to define would have on the Conservation Area 1.6 By identifying what makes Hunsingore and analyse the special interest which and whether these are acceptable and/or special or distinctive, it is suggested constitutes the character and appearance appropriate. that any future change, whether to ind- of a place. It is these qualities which ividual buildings, building groups or the warrant the designation of a Conservation 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special village as a whole, will be based on this Area. This Appraisal has been adopted architectural or historic interest is based understanding of the past and present by Harrogate Borough Council, and on a careful and objective analysis of character of the village. In this way, we forms an “evidence base” for the Local the area, using a method of analysis can manage future change to ensure it Development Framework (LDF). It is, recommended by English Heritage. makes a positive contribution towards therefore a material consideration when Various qualities are looked at including: preserving or enhancing Hunsingore’s determining applications for development, historical development, building materials, special character. considering planning appeals or proposing and relationships between buildings works for the preservation or enhancement and open spaces. Appraisals aim to be of the area. It will also form the basis for a comprehensive but the omission of any subsequent Management Strategy, which particular building, feature or space will contain proposals and policies for the should not be taken to imply that it conservation and enhancement of the is of no interest. area. 1.5 Hunsingore Conservation Area was 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and originally designated in March 1994. This guidance to those wishing to carry out Appraisal aims to describe Hunsingore as works in the Conservation Area whether it is today and identify the special character or not they require planning approval. and distinctiveness of its setting, buildings So, it is a useful source of information for and open spaces. Having identified those property owners, agents, applicants and special qualities, the Appraisal will examine members of the public who live or work whether opportunities exist to protect and in Hunsingore. enhance its character. 1.3 The main function of the Conservation Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works in the Conservation Area have regard to the special qualities of the area and to devise a strategy to protect these qualities. The Appraisal will help us understand the impact that development proposals Hunsingore Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 21 September 2011 p. 1 2 Planning policy framework Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate it is contrary to saved Local Plan Policy The principal objectives of the ‘areas of special architectural or historic HD3, which is the key policy for the Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance control of development in Conservation of which it is desirable to preserve or Areas. The scope of Policy HD3 also to define and record enhance’ as Conservation Areas under covers development proposals outside the settlement’s special section 69 of the Planning (Listed Conservation Areas which would affect character and interest; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act its setting or views into or out of it. 1990. The same Act also requires local to raise public awareness planning authorities to periodically review 2.4 Involving the community and raising of the aims and objectives Conservation Areas. public awareness is an integral part of of the Conservation Area the appraisal process and needs to be 2.2 Government guidance on all development approached in a pro-active and innovative designation and stimulate affecting Conservation Areas is set out way. Community involvement helps to their involvement in the in Planning Policy Statement 5 (PPS5). bring valuable public understanding and protection of its character; This advises local authorities to define the ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. to identify what is worthy elements that make the special character A report included in Appendix B details of preservation to aid or appearance of Conservation Areas how the local community has been in order to provide a sound basis on involved and the contribution it understanding; which to develop local planning policies, has made to this Appraisal. to assess the action that preservation or enhancement strategies may be necessary to and to make development control safeguard this special decisions. interest ; 2.3 In determining planning applications for to identify opportunities development within Conservation Areas for enhancement. and applications for Conservation Area consent, the council will give considerable weight to the content of Conservation Area character appraisals. The consideration of proposals in the context of the description contained in these appraisals will be an important factor in deciding whether a proposal has an adverse affect on the character and appearance of the Conservation Area, and therefore, whether p. 2 Hunsingore Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 21 September 2011 3 Historic development & archaeology 3.1 The meaning of the name Hunsingore is on the site where Ribston Hall now stands an “ofer or ridge of Hunsinge’s people”. (in fact the chapel of the monastery is In the Domesday Book of 1086 the still there). The Abbot of this monastery village is recorded as Hulsingovre. had a house built for himself called New House on the mound at Hunsingore 3.2 The medieval site of Hunsingore Hall (New overlooking the river. Later, the Goodricke House) at the south end of the village is family, who owned Ribston Hall and the a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It is Estate for three hundred years, lived in reputedly the site of a castrum of the the New House at Hunsingore as their Templars and later a hall of the main house. It is thought that Cromwell Goodricke family. destroyed Ribston Hall and New House, probably after the battle of Marston Moor in 1644 in the reign of Charles I. Ribston Hall was rebuilt in 1674, but New House in Hunsingore was never rebuilt. The Church of St. John the Baptist 3.4 The village of Hunsingore once formed part of the