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Holtby Village Design Statement Holtby Village Design Statement 3 Sand Hutton S What is the How was it Holtby Holtby VDS? produced? It’s an easy-to-read pamphlet After two public meetings a team contents... which: of ten or so interested residents was set up to steer the describes the village • production of the VDS. The Introduction Buildings and its surroundings in and its Launch Day on May 1st, 2004 – plain, accessible language, 3 Holtby and its People. 14 Building types. an exhibition and tour/quiz – was What is the Holtby Building styles. • sets out clearly what attended by some 65 people. All Village Design residents consider to residents of Holtby Parish were 15 Traditional/vernacular Statement (VDS)? be the distinctive and informed and consulted at every building features. people Who is it for? attractive characteristics stage by means of: Listed buildings. How was it produced? of the village and 16 The modern era. We the people of Holtby think its setting, • information leaflets The Church of the our village is a very special place. about the preliminary The village setting It’s a typical Yorkshire village, but • suggests clear and simple meetings and Holy Trinity. guidelines for the design of 4 Location. it also has something unique Launch Day, 17 Design guidelines. about it. any future development in History. the village, based on its • a questionnaire asking A green village. This Village Design Statement present character. residents their opinion Appendices sets out to discover what it is on the characteristics of 5 A rich habitat for that makes our village so special. the village, and on any wildlife. 18 Appendix A Producing these few pages other issues, Listed buildings. brought pleasure to a lot of Who is it for? 6 Farming: diversity people. But the VDS is more • For residents, to help • consultation on the and change. Appendix B than that; we believe that an drafts of the VDS, Other buildings them know more about understanding of what we have and appreciate our village. mainly through a display 7 Access by lane, track and other features inherited from previous at the Christmas mulled and path. of importance in generations helps us retain and • For planners and all those wine and mince pies Design guidelines. the village. develop what is best in our interested and involved in evening. the planning and 19 Acknowledgements village and its surroundings. development process of The area covered by the design Contributors to In these pages you will find a The settlement pattern the village and its guidelines is that of the village the Holtby VDS. quick look at Holtby’s past, a surroundings. envelope (see map on pages 8 Washed over Green study of its present, and some 10-11) and, where appropriate, Belt status. There are some points raised in the thoughts about how we might Holtby parish itself. Development. document which amount to hopes like the village to be in the future. The economy and desires of villagers and are We hope you will enjoy reading it. of Holtby. outside the control of the local planning authority. 9 Gardens and The Design Team reinforce the property divisions. point made on page 12 by Martin Lowe, Conservation Officer, City of Street furniture. York Council, that many of the The traffic threat. details that go to make up the character of the village cannot be 10-11 Holtby Village regulated by the development Settlement Plan control process. They are the result of the care shown by the individual and buildings. property owners. 12 Services. This document was accepted as draft Supplementary Planning 13 Design guidelines. Guidance to the City of York Council's draft Local Plan (as amended) on 28 April 2005. Front cover: Holtby from Mill Hill Back cover: Reproduced with permission of Getmapping Plc. Licence No. 1569731 2 Holtby Village Design Statement Holtby Village Design Statement 3 Sand Hutton s inhabitants; the present position s 9 o F 1 Our village proudly sits “I feed my Little Owls too weak r Location A may have been preferred e v Upper i 4 on highest ground R 6 nt because it was away from the to fend for themselves, and A Helmsley rwe The village of Holtby lies off the Stockton-on De er with open vistas all around. -the-Forest iv exposed high ground of the ridge down swoops a wild tawny. He R A166, 5 miles north east of the A166 Across field and Vale city of York. The road follows the and the wet land below. is thrown a few morsels as Stamford Warthill Bridge the Minster, proud and true, consolation” 59 Gate crest of a prominent ridge, part The Scandinavian origin of the A is lit by glowing sun Helmsley of the York Terminal Moraine. Local sculptor Sally Arnup Holtby name (Holt-by means Coppice talks of her owl sanctuary in golden hue. village) tells us the Vikings were Murton Low Catton Night sky studded here; and the Domesday Survey with planet and star “Each November we eagerly Dunnington of 1086 – where the name is is clear to the Milky Way afar. anticipate the return of fieldfare A1079 given as Boltbei – lists it among and redwing. Although they Scale 1 : 140,000 Bat with barn the King’s lands. King William and tawny owl in ghostly flight the raid our holly for its berries, we Kexby rewarded three of his barons with are swift shadows ‘six geld carucates of land (about forgive them” YORK against harvest moon’s 240 hectares of tax-yielding land) A bird and nature lover bright disc light. and manorial rights’. Since then B1228 Primroses on 64 e the village has seen two periods A s village u A Crown Copyright reproduced Straight Lane 8 1 Elvington O 2 9 by permission of Ordnance Survey of growth – from the mid 18th to r 2 e 1 on behalf of the Controller v i B of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. R the mid 19th centuries, and from Licence Number 100020818. the 1960s to the present day. A rich habitat Drought years have given us the setting... opportunity to clear away the The field for wildlife fallen branches from the has not been This feature provided a dry route A green village mature willows which grazed for over surround it, as well as across the once marshy Vale Viewed from any of the Weir Pond, on the northern a year. The primrose bank, on the waste dumped of York, much used by the 4 approach roads, the approach to the village, is the Straight Lane, is close to the by fly-tippers. Romans and by our village appears to be largest of the numerous ‘watering heart of the village, a living ancestors since prehistoric dominated by greenery holes’, rich in aquatic life, which The heron, on monument to those who have times. – trees, hedges and provided drinking water for large its occasional protected our natural verges from numbers of livestock. King Harold possibly natural verges which forays, has not deprived us of destruction. Verges provide paused at a vantage point soften the too many amphibians, some of sanctuary for probably as many just above Holtby to survey brickwork of the which, such as the salamander, as 70%.of all plant species. the Viking enemy before his 50 or so houses. have been introduced from our own gardens. The new owl-box, victory over Harald Hardråda at The tree fence and stile erected recently Brown Hare leaps across Green Lane Stamford Bridge in 1066. The population, And raises pheasant from its field of grain. by a landowner behind his house ridge reaches its highest point of which has many Weir Pond Who flies and glides with blackbird, thrush and crow, on Main Street will, it is hoped, just over 40 metres above sea mature small butterfly, bee, cuckoo and swallow. encourage the return of the level slightly to the south-west of specimens, is short-tailed vole and the barn owl The hedges - corridors of life Holtby. From here there are regularly being The village is also ‘green’ in its use of modern environmental to their previous habitat. for mouse, shrew, insect, bird, striking views in all directions added to with The Minster from Mill Hill and wondrous others only heard. across open countryside: York both native and technology. It is the site of one of Minster towering over the city, rarer types such the few, largely experimental, reed Ploughed fields patterned with print of badger, the Yorkshire Wolds, the as the red oak and bed sewage treatment systems in stoat and deer, give view to the Wolds, Howardian Hills and the North the holm oak. this country. This system, uninterupted and clear. York Moors, including the White developed in Europe in the last A small, recently planted Perfume of flowers, wild , bright and sweet, Horse of Kilburn. 30 years, uses the ability of the arboretum has a Wellingtonia, hawthorn, dog and guelder rose, common reed to absorb oxygen honeysuckle, here at your feet. Gingko and Cedar of Lebanon. into its roots, producing micro- In another recent tree-planting organisms which act as a form of Cattle and sheep laze and graze, History project of 3,600 native saplings in foals leap and dance beneath mother’s fond gaze. biological filter. a field on the edge of the village, There has been human The Wolds from Mill Hill In ponds, the moorhen, frog, toad and duck settlement at Holtby for the ‘first colonists’ – the ox-eye hope that this day, old heron will be out of luck centuries. A recently discovered daisy and the poppy in particular – New saplings and ‘first colonists’ Elizabeth Wilson Iron Age barrow in fields to the are already staking their place north suggests pre-Roman among the new trees.
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