Cherry Burton Parish Council with a Formal Such Judgements Should Be Based on a Proposal

CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL CHERRY BURTON EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL REVIEWED MAY 2009 CHERRY BURTON CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL INTRODUCTION The Local Situation The National Situation The Cherry Burton Conservation Area The concept of Conservation Areas was designated in 2005, and this is the was established over 40 years ago in first re-appraisal of the Area since that the Civic Amenities Act of 1967. date. The Town and Country Planning Act Consideration of the designation of a 1990 defines a Conservation Area as Conservation Area in Cherry Burton "an area of special architectural or goes back more than 20 years. historic interest the character or appearance of which it is desirable to The former Beverley Borough Council preserve or enhance." produced draft plans for one in the early 1990’s, but by the time the Borough For the designation of Conservation Council became part of the East Riding Areas to be effective, it is important that of Yorkshire Council, (in 1996), no rational and consistent judgements are designation had been submitted. made in determining their special qualities and local distinctiveness, as well It was therefore not until 2003 that this as their value to the local community. Council was able to approach the Cherry Burton Parish Council with a formal Such judgements should be based on a proposal. This was followed by a Public thorough understanding of the area in Exhibition, when residents gave their its wider context, reached through a views on it, prior to designation. detailed appraisal of its character. In the light of the comments received, The purpose behind Conservation Area amendments were made to the original designation is not to prevent any further proposals and the Area was designated change; rather it is to ensure that on 29 th June 2005. whatever change does occur is carefully managed. This appraisal has been undertaken in accordance with "Guidance on In England, over 9500 Conservation Conservation Areas" issued by English Areas have been designated by Local Heritage in August 2005 with a view to Authorities. (In the East Riding there meeting the requirements of national are now over 100 which have been government for the protection of the designated between 1969 and the historic environment. present day). 2 DEFINITION OF CHERRY 1. The Eastern approach between the BURTON’S SPECIAL INTEREST Hall & Cherry Burton House. 2. The central (lowest) area including the Cherry Burton is a Wolds village and has village pond and green. most of the ingredients that make it typical of such venues. Within this linear layout there are several 3. Highgate. aspects that make it special: 1) The parkland of the Hall & These inform and contrast with each Cherry Burton House at the east other with, once the walls between the end of the village. Hall and Cherry Burton House are 2) The significant presence of trees which soften the harder reached, a constricted channel-like entry character of its buildings. dropping into the central valley area 3) The historic character of the where the open green spaces of pond buildings on High Street and and green help to give a more relaxed Main Street, many of which are and open character. unlisted. 4) The remaining elements of its historic antecedents – pumps, And after the road has climbed away pond, village green etc. from its low point and Bishop Burton This continually changing mix of Road and Etton Road are passed, the buildings, hedges and open spaces give character in Highgate is once more of a variety, interest and individuality to the landscape and streetscape, and it is constricted street frontage with unusual to encounter such diversity of properties being at, or close to, back-of- character in such a short linear stretch. pavement-edge - until it bursts out into open countryside at the western end of the village. THE CHARACTER AND a) Topography and its Relevance APPEARANCE OF THE CONSERVATION AREA AT The East Riding of Yorkshire CHERRY BURTON Landscape Character Assessment (ERYC, 2005) is a valuable document in This document seeks to identify the describing this topic. It advises that to special architectural and historic interest the east of the Cherry Burton of the character and appearance of Conservation Area lies the ‘ Lund Sloping Cherry Burton. It indicates how this Farmland’ Character Area, identified as a should be preserved and enhanced and slightly raised and gently undulating should be useful to potential developers, landscape between Beverley and residents and businesses and to the Driffield which is dominated by Council in the making of Development intensive arable agriculture. Field Control decisions and environmental systems here tend to be medium in size, improvements. rectilinear in shape and arranged in an irregular pattern overall. Dominant built It should be noted that the document features include the Hull to Scarborough makes reference to features which are railway line which crosses this character beyond the boundaries of the area in a north-south direction and also Conservation Area, where these may Normandy Barracks/Leconfield Airfield have had an impact on them. to the north of Beverley. The Conservation Area has three distinct sub-areas: Some small areas of semi-natural habitat are interspersed in this landscape. 3 Hedgerows are prevalent throughout pyramidal orchid, hairy rock-cress, and are dominated by hawthorn, with clustered bellflower, fern grass, autumn hazel, ash, blackthorn, elder, field maple gentian, small scabious and wild thyme and dogwood also present. Some small, found here. Often hawthorn and gorse isolated areas of wetland habitat are scrub is present amidst these chalk present and such sites would once have grasslands and this provides valuable been widespread in this landscape. For associated habitat. Another important example, Bryan Mills Field is a biological wildlife resource is the Beverley to SSSI comprising of spring-fed tall fen Market Weighton disused railway which surrounded by planted trees and runs through this character area. containing typical fen community Disused railway lines of this nature vegetation such as common reed, reed support biodiversity and also act as sweet-grass, meadowsweet, great willow important green corridors that link areas herb, lesser pond sedge and greater of semi-natural habitat which may tussock sedge. otherwise be isolated amidst the intensively farmed arable landscape. Plant species typical of such a habitat include biting stonecrop, silver hairgrass, marjoram and thyme-leaved sandwort. To the south of the Cherry Burton Conservation Area lies the ‘ Bishop Burton Estate Farmland ’ Character Area. The Landscape Character Assessment identifies this area as being distinct from neighbouring landscapes due to the blocks of broad-leaved woodland and scattered mature trees in the vicinity of The sylvan character of the Conservation Area’s west end Bishop Burton. This character area is dominated by the estate of Bishop To the west of the Cherry Burton Burton College which is situated on the Conservation Area lies the ‘ South Wolds site of a former palace of the Rolling Farmland ’ Character Area. The Archbishop of York. The remains of Landscape Character Assessment the palace’s medieval deer park are still identifies this area as covering the present, notably the former deer southern dip slope of the Wolds, with enclosure structure known as The Rein. land generally below 150m AOD. The The village of Bishop Burton is a landscape is one of open, rolling settlement of considerable landscape farmland which contains little woodland history interest including its village cover. Native woodland here tends to pond, know as The Mere, which is a be dominated by ash and field maple distinctively-large example of a feature which is indicative of the southern part characteristic of many villages in the of the Wolds whilst planted woodland is Wolds, the parish church which dates present in the form of shelterbelts from the 13th century and the visible around farm holdings. remains of the 18th century agricultural enclosures in and around the village. Calcareous grassland is an important aspect of this landscape. For example, b) The Natural Environment former chalk pits, such as that found at Kiplingcoates, can support important Although the Cherry Burton plant communities with species such as Conservation Area is located in an area 4 largely dominated by intensive arable Conservation Area have expansive land-use, the village itself contains a gardens and these not only contain variety of important areas of natural mature standard trees that contribute environment interest. Whilst there are greatly to the wider character of the no statutorily designated wildlife sites area, but also add to an enhanced close to the village, there are some diversity of wildlife. Perhaps the most locally important sites, such as the area notable private open space in the of woodland at Lambfold Wood and the Conservation Area is the parkland of grassland and scrub interest along the The Hall and Cherry Burton House. disused Beverley-Market Weighton Here, large expanses of grazing pasture railway line. Although such wildlife-rich are present with a series of very areas are generally fragmented and significant mature standard trees, isolated, large areas of agricultural land including notable horse chestnuts and surrounding the village are currently oaks, that are typical of such an area of under Environmental or Countryside estate land. Stewardship schemes which helps to enhance the wider local landscape. Whilst the surrounding landscape is dominated by agriculture which undoubtedly contributes to the setting of the Conservation Area, the village itself contains a number of small-scale features of natural interest. There are a series of small, public open green spaces, notably the land adjacent to the junctions along Highgate with The The Village Pond – a valued natural feature in the heart Drive and Highcroft and those along of the village Main Street with Linton Garth, Canada Drive and The Meadows, which are Also within the Conservation Area are a dominated by grassland and mature series of small areas of wildlife interest.

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