Golden Lane Listed Building Management Guidelines Updated Edition 2013 (Originally published May 2007) September 2013 Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines Foreword These are the adopted listed building management guidelines for Golden Lane Estate produced by the City of London Corporation. Part of the original project brief included the establishment of a Working Party to offer guidance and advice on behalf of key interested parties. The group met regularly and included residents (both tenants and leaseholders), Members, representatives of English Heritage, the Twentieth Century Society, the Department of Community and Children’s Services and Department of Planning and Transportation. The Working Party, chaired by Deputy Mobsby, was vital to the development of the project, offering feedback on drafts of the guidelines and looking to the future of the Estate. We would like to thank its members for their contributions. Part 1 of this document was produced by the City Corporation’s Department of Planning and Transportation. Part 2 was produced by Avanti Architects Ltd, 361-373 City Road, London, EC1V 1AS The guidelines were approved by Community and Children’s Services Committee and Planning and Transportation Committee in June 2007. They have now been comprehensively reviewed, updated in the light of five years of operation on the estate and re-published as a Supplementary Planning Document. The Working Party was re-constituted for the purposes of carrying out the 2012/13 review, and has included several of the original members. , Avanti Architects have also been engaged to assist in the production of the updated edition of 2012/13. Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines Contents Part 1: Introduction Plan of the Estate 1. Listed Building Management Guidelines: Background and Policy 11 2. Aims of Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines 14 3. Golden Lane Estate: Best Practice 15 4. History of Golden Lane Estate 16 5.’Special architectural and historic interest’ of Golden Lane Estate as a whole 20 6. Legislation, Listing and Listed Building Control 21 7. The Role of English Heritage 26 8. The Role of the National Amenity Societies 27 9. The Role of the City of London Corporation as Local Planning Authority 28 10. The Role of the City of London Corporation as Freeholder 29 11. How to apply for Listed Building Consent 31 12. How to apply for Planning Permission 33 13. Procedure for review of the management guidelines 34 Part 2: Detailed Guidance Illustrations and images 1. Introduction and Executive Summary 5 2. Special Interest of the Estate 15 3. Management Guidelines – Buildings 77 4. Best Practice 128 5. Conservation Strategy 148 6. Appendices 153 Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines Part 1 1 Listed Building Management Guidelines: background and policy 2 Aims of the Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines 3 Golden Lane Estate: best practice 4 History of the Golden Lane Estate 5 ‘Special architectural and historic interest’ of the Golden Lane Estate as a whole 6 Legislation, Listing and Listed Building Control 7 The role of English Heritage 8 The role the National Amenity Societies 9 The role of City of London Corporation as Local Planning Authority 10 The role of the City of London Corporation as freeholder 11 How to apply to apply for Listed Building Consent 12 How to apply for Planning Permission 13 Procedure for review of the Management Guidelines Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines Map of the Golden Lane Estate and extent of listing This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright 2004. All rights reserved. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Corporation of London 100023243 2004. INSERT ADDITIONAL PLAN SHOWING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES RELATED TO EACH BLOCK Part 1 10 UPDATE FOOTERS AS NECESSARY AT COMPLETION OF REVIEW Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines 1. Listed Building Management Guidelines: Background and Policy 1.1 Listed Building Management Guidelines are intended to be a tool for the positive, active management of historic buildings and to guide future change. They provide a structured framework from which informed decisions can be made. 1.2 Listed Building Management Guidelines aim to set out the agreements made between all parties including owners, residents, the local planning authority, English Heritage and amenity societies about the degree of change which may be acceptable within the listed buildings and their setting, although the extent to which this can be achieved is constrained by current legislation (see paragraph 1.5). 1.3 There are a number of different conservation policy instruments that may be used to assist in the management of change in listed buildings: • Conservation Plans aim to assess how the significance of a building should be retained in any future use, alteration or development. These are usually produced by specialist consultants who identify the key heritage values of the buildings and site, and then consider the various options. Conservation Plans are sometimes used to help justify or steer planning or grant applications for significant changes. • Management Agreements set out the informal position that has been agreed between individual owners and occupiers, the local planning authority, English Heritage and other relevant parties about the degree of acceptable change within a listed building, although the extent to which this can be achieved is constrained by the current legislation (see paragraph 1.5). These are usually reserved for buildings where there is a single owner of a building, such as a public or corporate owner. • Management Guidelines offer guidance on the special architectural or historic interest of a building or group of buildings, the types of changes that may or may not require listed building consent and where these may be acceptable. They may also contain advice on good practice in repair and maintenance. The ability of management guidelines to offer definitive guidance on change is constrained by current legislation (see paragraph 1.5). They are prepared in conjunction with owners, residents/occupiers, the local planning authority, English Heritage and amenity societies and are subject to formal stakeholder consultation. They are more suitable where there are a substantial number of individual stakeholders, such as housing estates, where it would be impractical to obtain the individual agreement of each owner or occupier and where it may be unrealistic to rely on enforcement as the initial instrument of change control. They may then be adopted as supplementary planning documents by the local planning authority and become a ‘material consideration’ in the consideration of individual applications. 1.4 The first listed building management guidelines were produced for the Willis Corroon Building in Ipswich in 1992. The guidelines produced since then have been predominately for post-war listed buildings or estates where there is constant pressure for change and where building owners have sought greater clarity on the extent of their freedom to make alterations without the need for formal consent. English Heritage published a guidance note in 1995 titled, ‘Developing guidelines for the management of listed buildings’ and in June 2003, with the Office of the then Deputy Prime Minster (ODPM), published the findings of a jointly commissioned study titled ‘Streamlining listed building consent: lessons from the use of management agreements’. In July 2003, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport published a consultation paper, ‘Protecting our historic environment: making the system work better’, which suggests 1 Listed Building Management Guidelines: background and policy Part 1 11 Golden Lane Estate Listed Building Management Guidelines that greater opportunity should be given to owners of listed buildings to enter into management agreements. The use of management agreements has a clear and increasing role to play in the listed building control system and in promoting constructive, on-going dialogue and mutual trust and understanding between building owners and the statutory authorities. 1.5 One of the key functions of Listed Building Management Guidelines is to provide clarification as to what types of change may or may not require listed building consent. Listed Building Management Guidelines can only be an informal consensus between all stakeholders on the acceptability of change within the building. Section 7 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 provides that listed building consent will be required where works affect the character of a listed building, irrespective of any agreements between parties regarding the acceptability of the proposals. Listed Building Management Guidelines therefore cannot remove the need to obtain listed building consent for works of alteration which affect the character of a building of special architectural and historic interest (see paragraphs 6.2-6.7). Currently it is not legally possible for local planning authorities or the Secretary of State to make a binding decision as to whether listed building consent is needed. However, guidelines can provide an assessment of the balance