MIDDLESBROUGH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK NUNTHORPE DESIGN STATEMENT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 2011 1 MIDDLESBROUGH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK NUNTHORPE SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT CONTENTS PAGE PAGE 1 Purpose………………………………………….………………………..….. 3 2 Who? …………………………………………….…………………….….…. 3 3 Process………………………………………….…………………….……... 3 4 Policy Context……………………………….……………………….……... 4 5 Background………………………………………………………….………. 5 6 History of Nunthorpe……………………..………………………….….…. 6 7 Community Facilities……………………..………………….……….……. 8 8 Settlement Patterns and Character Areas……………….………..……. 11 Nunthorpe Village…………………………………….………….….... 11 Outlying Farms and Dwellings………………………………….…... 11 Marton Moor Road, Rookwood Road, The Avenue and surrounding……….….……………………………….……………….. 13 Guisborough Road & the Croft……………………………….…..…. 14 Guisborough Road and Stokesley Road Semi’s……………….….. 15 Mallowdale, Clevegate, High Gill and surrounding………………... 16 The Avenue (north)…………………………………………………… 17 Grey Towers Drive, Stokesley Road, Moor Green …………..…… 17 Nunthorpe Gardens and the Box………………………………..….. 18 Urban Open Space……………………………….…………….…..… 19 9 Well Designed Buildings……………………………………………..….…. 21 10 Significant Buildings…………………………………….………….…….… 23 11 Sustainability…………….…………………………….……………….……. 23 12 Open and Green Spaces…………………….………………………..……. 24 13 Traffic and Transport………………………………….…………….…..….. 27 Your Considerations………………………………………….……..…….……… 29 Useful Contacts & Acknowledgements………………………….…….……… 30 Related Reading…………………………………………….…………….….….… 31 Glossary……………………………………………………….……….…………… 32 Appendix 2 – Statement of Process……………………….…….…………….. 35 Appendix 3 – Local List / Listed building Gazetteer…..……………...…….. 36 2 MIDDLESBROUGH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK NUNTHORPE SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT Community and Parish Councils, the Greater Nunthorpe Action Group and individual residents for the purpose of commenting on planning applications within Nunthorpe; and, Middlesbrough Council Planning Officers and Planning Committee as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications received for Nunthorpe. 2.2. This statement does not just aim to inform Nunthorpe Boundary Stone potential developers, but raise general awareness of the special characteristics of 1. PURPOSE Nunthorpe. It is essential that in order to add value to Nunthorpe as it exists, any 1.1. For the residents of Nunthorpe the area is proposed development should enhance the more than just a group of buildings, it is a qualities and characteristics that define successful community; the sum of the Nunthorpe and that are identified within this buildings, spaces, streets and trees where document. All applications should people live, work and play. demonstrate that they have taken on board the appropriate design guidelines set out in 1.2. This document aims to ensure that future this Design Statement. development within Nunthorpe will take account of the key features that 2.3. It should be noted that in many instances characterise the area. It aims to manage, the guidelines stated throughout this not prevent further change within document are concerned with the permitted Nunthorpe in order to maintain the development rights of property owners distinctiveness that the residents of (works that do not require planning Nunthorpe have become proud of and permission). In these cases they are sustain it as a thriving community. This advisory and should be regarded as the document and the process behind it, aspirations of Nunthorpe. This document is acknowledge the inevitability of future a Middlesbrough Council document and development, which if carried out properly, therefore does not apply to any will not be detrimental to the area. development within Redcar and Cleveland (see context map). 1.3. The eight topics that this design statement covers have been drawn from best 3. PROCESS practice guidance and reflect common themes and aspirations of Nunthorpe. 3.1. Design Statements are dependent upon the unique knowledge, appreciation and 2. WHO? understanding that local communities have of their local environment. The preparation 2.1. The Design Statement should be used by: of the Nunthorpe Design Statement was led Residents / Architects / Builders and by a steering group of nine local residents, Developers wishing to do anything from the two Ward Councillors and supported by making minor alterations to existing Planning Officers from Middlesbrough properties to building new housing Council. The group collated material from developments; research, public exhibitions, meetings and opinion surveys of the residents and local 3 MIDDLESBROUGH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK NUNTHORPE SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT Nunthorpe context primary school children. The Council It has been prepared in accordance with would like to thank the members of the the Government’s Planning Policy Steering Group for their involvement in Statement (PPS) 12 – Local Development researching and collating the evidence in Frameworks (2004) and the associated order to produce this document. Town and Country (Local Development) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008. 3.2. Also to thank are all those residents who assisted in the delivery of leaflets for the 4.2. The aim of the SPD is to add value to the Public Exhibition and the Public Meetings policies in the Core Strategy, the and all those who helped along the way. Regeneration DPD and the subsequent There were also a number of Council Environment DPD. In doing so, it will also officers who provided their expertise and add value to the quality of development advise throughout the process. For a full within the town, thereby creating a place statement of process, see Appendix 2. where people will want to live, want to visit, and want to invest in. 4. POLICY CONTEXT 4.3. The Government places design quality at 4.1. This Supplementary Planning Document the forefront of its agenda for planning. (SPD) forms part of the suite of This is clearly demonstrated within Middlesbrough’s Local Development Planning Policy Statement 1(PPS1) – Framework Documents, required under Delivering Sustainable Development, which the Planning and Compulsory Purchase emphasises the importance of good design; Act 2004. It will assist the Council in “Planning authorities should plan positively delivering national and local planning for the achievement of high quality and policy objectives in respect of design and inclusive design for all development, sustainable development in Nunthorpe. A including individual buildings, public and town wide Design SPD is being prepared. private spaces and wider area development 4 MIDDLESBROUGH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK NUNTHORPE SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT schemes. Good design should contribute the Ward. This area includes a portion of positively to making places better for twentieth century suburban housing estate people. Design which is inappropriate in in the north and the two small settlements its context, or which fails to take the of Grey Towers Park (2004) and Nunthorpe opportunities available for improving the Village surrounded by farmland in the character and quality of an area and the south. Approximately 20% is covered by a way it functions, should not be accepted conservation area, which includes the [by the Local Authority]”. original Nunthorpe village, fields and new housing associated with Poole Hospital. 4.4. The Council’s own Core Strategy design The remaining approximately 50% policy CS5, requires that “all development comprises farms of mixed usage, with proposals will be required to demonstrate many significant and definable copses, a high quality of design in terms of layout, hedges and water features. The open form and contribution to the character and nature of the surrounding countryside appearance of the area”. Policy CS5 allows for long distance views in to North further seeks the “enhancement of the Yorkshire, the Eston Hills and Roseberry best characteristics of Middlesbrough’s Topping. built environment to create a positive identity for the town and improve the quality of life of its population”. 4.5. Documents forming part of the ‘Local Development Framework’ are available to view on the Council’s website at www.middlesbrough.gov.uk. Reference should also be made to the Middlesbrough Local Plan and the extant policies of the Environment and Recreation chapter. These extant policies will remain in force View of Roseberry Topping from Guisborough Road until the Environment DPD has been adopted. 5.3. It is not the purpose of this document to replicate the information already well 5. BACKGROUND documented within the Nunthorpe and Poole Conservation Area Appraisal and 5.1. Nunthorpe is situated approximately 4km Management document; therefore it will south-east of Middlesbrough town centre primarily focus on the areas not designated. at the very southern extent of Middlesbrough. The area generally known 5.4. In 2006 the Ward population of Nunthorpe as Nunthorpe is split in to two halves by stood at 4975 in just under 2000 the Middlesbrough to Whitby Railway line households. Of the respondents to a survey and lies within two local authority areas of Middlesbrough Nunthorpe Residents and (Middlesbrough Borough Council to the their opinions of their neighbourhood West and neighbouring Redcar and carried out in 2010, a significant proportion Cleveland Borough Council to the East). (45%) of the residents had lived in the area The area of this document covers only the for 30years or more. In the same survey Nunthorpe