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PATELEY BRIDGE Conservation Area Character Appraisal PATELEY BRIDGE Conservation Area Character Appraisal Approved 24 February 2010 Pateley Bridge Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 24 February 2010 p. 33 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 2 2. Planning policy context .................................................................................................. 2 3. Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4. Location & setting .......................................................................................................... 4 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 5 6. Form & character of buildings ......................................................................................11 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 14 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 18 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary ................................................................................ 19 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 20 Map 4: Landscape character analysis ............................................................................. 21 Appendix A: 1. Management strategy ................................................................................................. 22 2. Monitoring & review .................................................................................................... 22 3. Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 22 4. Conservation Area boundary review .......................................................................... 22 5. The management of change ...................................................................................... 24 6. Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 25 Checklist .................................................................................................................. 28 Appendix B: Public consultation .................................................................................... 29 Appendix C: Listed Buildings ......................................................................................... 30 Appendix D: Further Reading ........................................................................................ 31 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. 34 Pateley Bridge Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 24 February 2010 1. Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to define devise a strategy to protect these qualities. further amended on 24 February 2010 and analyse the special interest which The Appraisal will help us understand This Appraisal aims to describe Pateley constitutes the character and appearance the impact that development proposals Bridge as it is today and identify the of a place. It is these qualities which would have on the Conservation Area special character and distinctiveness of warrant the designation of a Conservation and whether these are acceptable and/or its setting, buildings and open spaces. Area. This Appraisal was approved by appropriate. Having identified those special qualities, The Cabinet for Planning and Transport the Appraisal will examine whether oppor- and forms an “evidence base” for the 1.4 Defining the character of an area is not a tunities exist to protect and enhance its Local Development Framework (LDF). straightforward exercise and it is imposs- character. Consequently, it is a material consider- ible to reach a truly objective view. The ation when determining applications statement of character and appearance in 1.6 By identifying what makes Pateley Bridge for development, considering planning this appraisal is based on various detailed special or distinctive, it is suggested that appeals or proposing works for the methods of analysis recommended any future change, whether to individual preservation or enhancement of the area. by English Heritage. Various different buildings, building groups or the village as It also forms the basis for a subsequent qualities are looked at including: historical a whole, will be based on this understand- Management Strategy, which will contain development, building materials, and ing of the past and present character of proposals and policies for the conservation relationships between built and open the town. In this way, we can manage and enhancement of the area. spaces. Appraisals aim to be compre- future change to ensure it makes a posi- hensive but the omission of any particular tive contribution towards preserving or 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and building, feature or space should not be enhancing its special character. guidance to those wishing to carry out taken to imply that it is of no interest. works in the Conservation Area whether or not they require planning approval. 1.5 Pateley Bridge Conservation Area was So, it is a useful source of information for originally designated in October 1970. The property owners, agents, applicants and boundary was later amended following members of the public who live or work in a review of the Conservation Area in Pateley Bridge. 1995. Following public consultation on the draft Appraisal, the boundary was 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 Pateley Bridge Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 24 February 2010 p. 1 2. Planning policy context Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate development in conservation areas. The The principal objectives of the ‘areas of special architectural or historic scope of Policy HD3 also covers develop- Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance ment proposals outside conservation areas of which it is desirable to preserve or which would affect its setting or views into to define and record the enhance’ as conservation areas under or out of the area. special character and Section 69 of the Planning (Listed 2.4 Pateley Bridge is in the Nidderdale Area interest of Pateley Bridge; Build-ings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The same Act also requires local of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). planning authorities to periodically review In 1994, in recognition of the quality of its to raise public awareness conservation areas. landscape the Countryside Commission of the aims and objectives designated the Nidderdale AONB. Saved of the Conservation Area 2.2 Government guidance on all development Policy C1 from the Harrogate District Local designation and stimulate affecting conservation areas is set out Plan, provides that priority will be given their involvement in the in Planning Policy Guidance Note 15: to the conservation of the natural beauty protection of its character; Planning and the Historic Environment of the landscape and any development (PPG15). PPG 15 advises local author- should reflect the local distinctiveness of ities to define the elements that make the the area. to identify what is worthy special character or appearance of con- of preservation to aid servation areas in order to provide a sound 2.5 The Nidderdale AONB Management understanding;· basis on which to develop local planning Plan (2009-14) is a spatial strategy that policies, preservation or enhancement addresses the need to manage change. to assess the action that strategies and to make development The NIdderdale AONB Heritage Strategy, control decisions. approved April 2009, identifies the may be necessary to objectives, policies and actions required for safeguard this special 2.3 In determining planning applications for the sustainable management of heritage in interest; development within conservation areas the AONB. and applications for conservation area to identify opportunities consent, the Council will give considerable 2.6 Involving the community and raising for enhancement. weight to the content of conservation area public awareness is an integral part of the character appraisals. The consideration of Appraisal process and needs to be app- proposals in the context of the description roached in a pro-active and innovative contained in this Appraisal will be an way. Community involvement helps to important factor in deciding whether a bring valuable public understanding and proposal has an adverse effect on the ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. A character and appearance of the conser- report included in the Appendix details vation area, and therefore, whether it is how the local community has been contrary to saved Local Plan Policy HD3, involved and the contribution it has which is the key policy for the control of made to this Appraisal. p. 2 Pateley Bridge Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved
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