Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal This page left intentionally blank. 2 Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal 3.6 Streetscape and Public Realm CONTENTS: x Paving treatments x Street furniture 1.0INTRODUCTION x Important surviving features 1.1 Boughton Street Conservation Area x Boundary treatments 1.2 The Purpose of Conservation Areas 1.3 The purpose and Status of this Character Appraisal 4.0 CONSERVATION AREA MANAGEMENT x Map 1:Boughton Street Conservation Area- with designated heritage assets STRATEGY 4.1 Planning Policy 2.0BOUGHTON STREET CONSERVATION AREA 4.2 Current Statutes and National Planning Guidance: 4.3 Historic England Guidance 2.1 Summary of Significance 4.4 The Development Plan 2.2 Historical Development 4.5 Adopted Supplementary Planning Guidance x Historic Maps 4.6 Buildings at Risk 2.3Topography, Geology and Landscape Setting 4.7 Householder alterations and Article 4 Directions 4.8 Shopfronts and advertisements 3.0CHARACTER APPRAISAL 4.9 Public Realm/Street Management 3.1Introduction to Character Areas 4.10 Traffic management x Map 2 - Character Areas 4.11 Management of the Conservation Area Setting 4.12 New development opportunities 3.2 CHARACTER AREA 1: Stockers Hill to Queen’s Head 4.13 Development of Enhancement Projects Inn 4.14 Conservation Area objectives x Map 3: Character Area 1 x Appraisal Appendix 1 x Architectural Character Extracts from the Statutory List of Buildings x Shopfronts Appendix 2 3.3CHARACTER AREA 2:Queen’s Head Inn to Bounds Lane Proposed amendments to Boughton Street Conservation x Map 4: Character Area 2 Area (Map 5: Proposed areas of extension) x Appraisal x Architectural Character Appendix 3 3.4 Building Materials Bibliography of key legislation, key national and local policy 3.5 Archaeology and guidance, and local history publications 3 Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal 1.0 INTRODUCTION Conservation Area status provides extra protection in the following ways: 1.1 Boughton Street Conservation Area x Local planning authorities have control over most Boughton Street Conservation Area was first designated on 1st demolition of buildings. May 1970. The boundary of the Conservation Area has not been x Local planning authorities have extra control over amended since its original designation and the local planning householder development. authority has not previously prepared a Conservation Area x Special provision is made to protect trees. Character Appraisal for Boughton Street. A review of the x When assessing planning applications, the local planning boundaries of the Conservation Area was undertaken in 1994 authority must pay special attention to the desirability of when the Faversham Society requested that the Conservation preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of Area be extended to include the village primary school. At that the Conservation Area and its setting. time the existing boundaries were considered appropriate and no x Policies in the Local Development Plan positively changes were made. encourage development which preserves or enhances the character or appearance of Conservation Areas (see There are two other Conservation Areas in the civil parish, one at section 4) South Street and one at Boughton Church, both to the south. Staple Street Conservation Area to the northeast is located within an adjoining parish. The aim of Conservation Area designation is to protect historic places and to assist in positively managing change so that their significance is safeguarded and sustained. Areas may be 1.2 The Purpose of Conservation Areas designated for their architecture, historic layout, use of characteristic or local materials, style or landscaping. In Conservation Areas were first introduced in the Civic Amenities accordance with the four types of heritage values set out in the Act of 1967. A Conservation Area is defined as “an area of special core Historic England guidance document ( Conservation architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance Principles: Policies &Guidance), communal values – which are of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance”(s.69(1) (a) of the those derived from the meaning of a place for people who relate to Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990). it, or for whom it figures in their collective experience or memory – will be of particular relevance to this Conservation Area given the It is the responsibility of individual local planning authorities to linkages between place names and remnants of bygone uses in designate and review Conservation Areas using local criteria to the wider context of historical growth and development. Above all determine and assess their special qualities and local however, Conservation Areas should be cohesive areas in which distinctiveness. buildings and spaces create unique environments that are of special architectural or historic interest. 4 Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal 1.3 The Purpose and Status of this Character Heritage significance may sometimes only be fully identified at Appraisal such time as a feature or a building is subject to the rigorous assessment that an individual planning application necessitates. Additionally, an appraisal can include management proposals to The purpose of this Conservation Area Character Appraisal is: ensure the preservation or enhancement of an area by means of policies, action points, design guidance and/or site-specific design x To identify the significance of the heritage asset – i.e. the statements where appropriate. value of the asset to this and future generations because of its heritage interest – which may be archaeological, An appraisal serves as a basis for both the formulation and architectural, artistic or historic interest. evaluation of Development Plan policies, as a material x To increase public awareness and involvement in consideration in the making of development management preservation and enhancement of the area. decisions, and by the Planning Inspectorate in determining x To provide a framework for planning decisions, to guide planning appeals. It can also heighten awareness of the special positive change and regeneration. character of the place to help inform local Parish Councils in the x To provide the necessary background to, and framework formulation of Neighbourhood Plans, Village Design Statements for a review of the Conservation Area boundary in and individuals in design choices. accordance with Section 69(2) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. This Character Appraisal is supplementary to the Swale Borough x To highlight particular issues and features which detract Local Plan and the emerging Boughton and Dunkirk from the character or appearance of the Conservation Area Neighbourhood Plan. It has been prepared in the context of the which offer potential for enhancement or improvement relevant national legislation and national and local planning policy through positive management. and guidance provided by central government, Historic England and the Borough Council itself, all of which are set out in Chapter 4 of this document, concerning the matter of Conservation Area management (see page 35). A Conservation Area Character Appraisal is a written record and assessment of the special architectural or historic interest which In light of the way that the production of Conservation Area gives rise to the character and appearance of a place. The Character Appraisal & Management Strategy documents (such as appraisal is a factual and objective analysis, which seeks to this one) are developed and prepared in the above stated context identify the distinctiveness of a place by defining the attributes that and are also subject to public scrutiny via a statutory public contribute to its special character. It should be noted, however, consultation period of a minimum of 21 days, following formal that the appraisal cannot be all-inclusive, and that the omission of adoption by the local planning authority, they then have sufficient any particular building, feature or space should not be taken to weight or gravitas to form a significant material consideration in imply that it is not of interest. the development management process. 5 Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal 6 Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal Map 1 Boughton Street Conservation Area Map - with designated heritage assets Boughton Street Conservation Area Appraisal 2.0 BOUGHTON STREET CONSERVATION AREA 2.1 Summary of Significance The significance and special interest of Boughton Street Conservation Area can be summarised as follows: x A linear village built on the Roman Watling Street which later served the pilgrim route between London and Canterbury. x Its rich variety of building types, styles, materials and forms spanning several centuries. x The evidential value of a once vibrant village community with a multitude of shops, places of worship, farms, schools, commerce and coaching inns. The tight-knit street frontages which open out to the east x into a wider more verdant street with some larger houses with more substantial gardens. x Its countryside setting preserved and not materially compromised by urban extensions or the encroachment of suburban development from nearby settlements. The degree of separation between the Conservation Area and the A2 bypass to the south is also important in terms of protecting its green and largely undeveloped setting. x Embankments, both grassy and brick built, often topped by mature