Authors: L Veldpaus J. Pendlebury Newcastle University School of Architecture Planning and Landscape Global Urban Research Unit Contents 0. Introduction ............................................................................................................. 4 1. Newcastle as a Case Study ....................................................................................... 4 1.1. Location of the study area and sub-area ........................................................................... 4 1.2. History and heritage .......................................................................................................... 5 1.3. Challenges for the area ..................................................................................................... 6 2. Planning reform: evolution of the governance and planning of the historic built environment ................................................................................................................. 10 In Building and consolidating the system ..................................................................................... 10 2.2. Stretching the system 2008-… ......................................................................................... 11 2.3. Heritage management in Newcastle ................................................................................ 12 3. The current legal and policy framework ................................................................ 19 3.1. Policy themes and general goals – national and local ...................................................... 19 3.2. Incentives and financial tools .......................................................................................... 24 3.3. Communication and civic engagement ............................................................................ 25 3.4. Future trajectory of policy ............................................................................................... 29 4. Mapping change in Ouseburn ................................................................................ 32 4.1. Ouseburn: mapping change ............................................................................................ 32 4.2. Future changes ................................................................................................................ 44 5. Sense of place ........................................................................................................ 46 5.1. Ouseburnness ................................................................................................................. 46 5.2. Aesthetics, atmosphere and approach of ‘the industrial’ ................................................. 46 5.3. Accessibility ..................................................................................................................... 49 5.4. Romanticising a lost landscape ........................................................................................ 49 5.5. Passion ............................................................................................................................ 50 6. The management of change .................................................................................. 52 6.1. The process of managing change..................................................................................... 52 6.2. Tools and mechanisms .................................................................................................... 52 6.3. Roles and responsibilities ................................................................................................ 52 6.4. The reasoning in consideration of managing change ....................................................... 54 7. Conclusions - Industrial Heritage Management ..................................................... 55 8. References ............................................................................................................. 57 2 Table of figures and tables: Figure 1: Conservation Areas Newcastle ........................................................................................................................... 5 Figure 2: Map Listed Buildings and Archaeology from Lower Ouseburn Valley Conservation Area Character Statement (Newcastle City Council, 2004) ........................................................................................................................ 5 Figure 3: Lower Ouseburn, The Cluny on the right, view on the Byker Bridge ............................................................... 7 Figure 4: Images of Ouseburn:........................................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 5: Graffiti / Murals in Ouseburn ............................................................................................................................. 9 Figure 6: Village Green Ouseburn ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Figure 7: institutional and policy history of Ouseburn 1987 – 2007 and 2007 - 2017 Developed from (González & Vigar, 2010) in blue, based on interviews added information in purple. ...................................................................... 14 Figure 8: The Urban Green Infrastructure Network is the fine grained and locally significant element of green infrastructure within the urban area, including existing and proposed links to the Strategic Green Infrastructure Network ............................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Figure 9: Results from Heritage Counts indicator data on “Public Engagement” via (https://historicengland.org.uk/research/heritage-counts/indicator-data/), which in turn is mostly based on the Taking Part Survey ............................................................................................................................................................ 26 Figure 10: Heritage Counts Report 2010 - Percentage of adults in England who visited a heritage site, red line added for ‘industrial heritage’ category online via https://content.historicengland.org.uk/content/heritage- counts/pub/HC-Eng-2010 ................................................................................................................................................ 26 Figure 11: Taking Part Survey data results ‘visiting heritage sites’ question online via https://www.gov.uk/guidance/taking-part-survey-data-analysis-tools visiting any heritage site (left image) and visiting industrial heritage site (right image) .................................................................................................................. 27 Figure 12: Map Ouseburn 1770 (Newcastle City Council, 2004) ................................................................................... 33 Figure 13: Map Ouseburn 1788 (Newcastle City Council, 2004) ................................................................................... 34 Figure 14: Ouseburn Bridge, near Newcastle, built by the Newcastle and North Shields Railway in the 1830s using laminated timber arches on masonry piers, similar to the Wiebeking system used in Paris (1915) Source Tomlinson, William Weaver, 1858-1916 (1915) The North Eastern Railway; its rise and development, Plate XV, opposite p. 322; Author signed T.M. Richardson, probably Thomas Miles Richardson (Junior) (1813-1890) online via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ouseburn_bridge,_nr._Newcastle.jpg ...................................................... 35 Figure 15: Map Ouseburn 1849 (Newcastle City Council, 2004) ................................................................................... 36 Figure 16: Map Ouseburn 1860 (Newcastle City Council, 2004) ................................................................................... 37 Figure 17: Map Ouseburn 1898 (Newcastle City Council, 2004) ................................................................................... 38 Figure 18: Map Ouseburn 1940, online via http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... 39 Figure 19: Images of Ouseburn........................................................................................................................................ 40 Figure 20: Map Ouseburn 1970, online via http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... 41 Figure 21: Map Ouseburn 2016, online via http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/ ...................................................................... 42 Figure 23: Building applications per year since 2000 online via publicaccessapplications.newcastle.gov.uk ............ 43 Figure 22: All building applications past 5 years online via https://publicaccessapplications.newcastle.gov.uk ....... 43 Figure 24: Flyer commissioned by Ouseburn Trust to promote the various attractions in the area and create an ‘Ouseburn Experience’ for visitors rather than just a visit to one specific site (e.g. Seven Stories) . .......................... 51 Figure 25: Advertisement for Ouseburn Valley as a destination for student Living / Student Village on Stoddart Street / Portland Road...................................................................................................................................................... 54 3 0. Introduction This briefing paper takes