GREAT OUSEBURN Conservation Area Character Appraisal Approved 16 September 2009 Great Ouseburn Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 16 September 2009 p. 27 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 2 2. Planning policy context .................................................................................................. 2 3. Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4. Location & setting .......................................................................................................... 4 5. Landscape analysis ....................................................................................................... 7 6. Form & character of buildings ..................................................................................... 10 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 14 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary ............................................................................... 15 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 16 Map 4: Landscape character analysis ............................................................................. 17 Appendix A: 1. Management strategy ................................................................................................. 18 2. Monitoring & review .................................................................................................... 18 3. Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 18 4. Conservation Area boundary review .......................................................................... 18 5. The management of change ...................................................................................... 20 6. Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 20 7. Landscape issues ...................................................................................................... 23 Checklist .................................................................................................................. 24 Appendix B: Public consultation .................................................................................... 25 Appendix C: Further reading .......................................................................................... 26 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. 28 Great Ouseburn Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 16 September 2009 1. Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to The Appraisal will help us understand 1.6 By identifying what makes Great Ouseburn define and analyse the special interest the impact that development proposals special or distinctive, it is suggested that which constitutes the character and app- would have on the Conservation Area any future change, whether to individual earance of a place. It is these qualities and whether these are acceptable and/or buildings, building groups or the village as which warrant the designation of a appropriate. a whole, will be based on this understand- Conservation Area. Once this Appraisal ing of the past and present character of has been approved by Harrogate Borough 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special the village. In this way, we can manage Council, it will form an “evidence base” for architectural or historic interest is based future change to ensure it makes a posi- the Local Development Framework (LDF). on a careful and objective analysis of tive contribution towards preserving or Consequently, it will be a material consid- the area, using a method of analysis enhancing its special character. eration when determining applications recommended by English Heritage. for development, considering planning Various qualities are looked at including appeals or proposing works for the pres- historical development, building materials, ervation or enhancement of the area. It and relationships between buildings will also form the basis for a subsequent and open spaces. Appraisals aim to be Management Strategy, which will contain comprehensive but the omission of any proposals and policies for the conservation particular building, feature or space and enhancement of the area. should not be taken to imply that it is of no interest. 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and guidance to those wishing to carry out 1.5 Great Ouseburn Conservation Area was works in the Conservation Area whether originally designated in March 1994. or not they require planning approval. Following consultation, it was amended So, it is a useful source of information for further on 16 September 2009. This St Mary’s Church from the churchyard. property owners, agents, applicants and Appraisal aims to describe Great Ouse- members of the public who live or work burn as it is today and identify the special in Great Ouseburn. character and distinctiveness of its setting, buildings and open spaces. Having 1.3 The main function of the Conservation identified those special qualities, the Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works Appraisal will examine whether oppor- in the Conservation Area have regard to tunities exist to protect and enhance the special qualities of the area and to its character. devise a strategy to protect these qualities. Great Ouseburn Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 16 September 2009 p. 1 2. Planning policy context Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate character and appearance of the conser- The principal objectives of ‘areas of special architectural or historic vation area, and therefore, whether it is the Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance contrary to saved Local Plan Policy HD3, of which it is desirable to preserve or which is the key policy for the control of to define and record the enhance’ as conservation areas under development in conservation areas. special character and section 69 of the Planning (Listed The scope of Policy HD3 also covers interest of Great Ouseburn; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act development proposals outside conserv- 1990. The same Act also requires local ation areas which would affect its setting planning authorities to periodically review or views into or out of the area. to raise public awareness conservation areas. of the aims and objectives 2.4 Involving the community and raising of the Conservation Area 2.2 Government guidance on all development public awareness is an integral part of the desig-nation and stimulate affecting conservation areas is set out appraisal process and needs to be app- their involvement in the in Planning Policy Guidance Note 15: roached in a pro-active and innovative protection of its character; Planning and the Historic Environment way. Community involvement helps to (PPG15). PPG 15 advises local author- bring valuable public understanding and ities to define the elements that make ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. to identify what is worthy the special character or appearance of A report included in the appendix details of preservation to aid conservation areas in order to provide how the local community has been understanding; a sound basis on which to develop involved and the contribution it has local planning policies, preservation or made to this Appraisal. to assess the action that enhancement strategies and to make may be necessary to development control decisions. safeguard this special 2.3 In determining planning applications for interest; development within conservation areas and applications for conservation area to identify opportunities consent, the Council will give considerable for enhancement. weight to the content of conservation area character appraisals. The consideration of proposals in the context of the description contained in these appraisals will be an important factor in deciding whether a The view south-east down Main Street. proposal has an adverse effect on the p. 2 Great Ouseburn Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 16 September 2009 3. Historic development & archaeology 3.1 The name Ouseburn derives from the of Kirby Hall on the site of an ancient ferry of the enclosure Act of 1777 the main little stream that flows into the River and river crossing known as Rudforth land owners were:- Mann Horsfield of Ure and comes from the Celtic word Wath. The original wooden bridge was Thorpe Green, reverend Thomas Cauthy ‘uisge’ which simply means ‘water’. destroyed by an ice flow in 1875 and vicar of Great Ouseburn, His Majesty the The stream’s source, in the grounds of rebuilt of metal in 1877. King, Lord Arundel Galway of Allerton the former Workhouse, is marked by a Park, Sir John Stapylton of Myton on pillar inscribed: ‘OUSE RIVER HEAD’ 3.3 Great Ouseburn was largely based on Swale, Henry Thompson of Kirby Hall, ‘OUSEGILL SPRING Ft. YORK 13 miles agriculture but it was also a service and George Cass, Christopher Oxley, Thomas BOROUGHBRIDGE 4 miles’