MIDDLESMOOR Conservation Area Character Appraisal approved 16 November 2011 Middlesmoor Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 16 November 2011 p. 1 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 2 2. Planning policy framework ............................................................................................ 2 3 Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4 Location & landscape setting ........................................................................................ 4 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 5 6. The form & character of buildings ............................................................................... 10 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 14 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 17 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary ............................................................................. 18 Map 3: Landscpe analysis & concepts ............................................................................ 19 Appendix A: 1 Management strategy .................................................................................................. 20 2 Monitoring & review ..................................................................................................... 20 3 Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 20 4 Conservation Area boundary review .......................................................................... 20 5 The management of change ....................................................................................... 21 6 Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 21 7 Landscape Issues ...................................................................................................... 24 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................ 25 Appendix B: Public consultation ..................................................................................... 26 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. 2 Middlesmoor Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 16 November 2011 1 Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to define The Appraisal will help us understand the 1.6 By identifying what makes Middlesmoor and analyse the special interest which impact that development proposals would special or distinctive it is suggested constitutes the character and appearance have on the Conservation Area that any future change, whether to of a place. It is these qualities which and whether these are acceptable individual buildings, building groups or the warrant the designation of a Conservation and/or appropriate. village as a whole, will be based on this Area. This Appraisal was approved understanding of the past and the present by the Cabinet Member for Planning, 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special character of the settlement. In this way, Transport and Economic Development architectural or historic interest is based we can manage future change to ensure on 16 November 2011 and forms an on a careful and objective analysis of it makes a positive contribution towards “evidence base” for the Local Development the area, using a method of analysis preserving or enhancing its special Framework (LDF). Consequently, it is a recommended by English Heritage. character. mat-erial consideration when determining Various qualities are looked at including: applications for development, considering historical development, building materials, planning appeals or propo sing works and relationships between buildings for the preservation or enhancement of and open spaces. Appraisals aim to be the area. It also forms the basis for a comprehensive but the omission of any subsequent Management Strategy, which particular building, feature or space will contain proposals and policies for should not be taken to imply that the conservation and enhancement it is of no interest. of the area. 1.5 Middlesmoor Conservation Area was 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and originally designated in January 1994 and guidance to those wishing to carry out was amended on 16 November 2011. This works in the Conservation Area whether Appraisal aims to describe Middlesmoor as or not they require planning approval. it is today and identify the special character So, it is a useful source of information for and distinctiveness of its setting, buildings property owners, agents, applicants and and open spaces. Having identified those members of the public who live or work in special qualities, the Appraisal will examine Middlesmoor. whether opportunities exist to protect and enhance its character. 1.3 The main function of the Conservation Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works in the Conservation Area have regard to the special qualities of the area and to devise a strategy to protect these qualities. Middlesmoor Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 16 November 2011 p. 1 2 Planning policy framework Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate policy for the control of development in The principal objectives of the “areas of special architectural or historic Conservation Areas). The scope of Policy Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance HD3 also covers development proposals of which it is desirable to preserve or outside a Conservation Area which would to define and record enhance” as Conservation Areas under affect its setting or views into or out of the the settlement’s special section 69 of the Planning (Listed Conservation Area. character and interest; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The same Act also requires local 2.4 Middlesmoor is in the Nidderdale Area of to raise public awareness planning authorities to periodically review Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In of the aims and objectives Conservation Areas. 1994, in recognition of the quality of its of the Conservation Area landscape, the Countryside Commission 2.2 Government guidance on all development designated the Nidderdale AONB. Saved designation and stimulate affecting Conservation Areas is set out Policy C1 from the Harrogate District Local involvement in the in Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning Plan, provides that priority will be given protection of its for the Historic Environment (PPS5) to the conservation of the natural beauty character; and its accompanying PPS5 Historic of the landscape and any development to identify what is worthy Environment Practice Guide. The Practice should reflect the local distinctiveness Guide advises local authorities to compile of the area. of preservation to aid Consevation Area Appraisals as a means understanding; of gaining better understanding of their 2.5 The Nidderdale AONB Management to assess the action that significance. PPS5 advises that an Plan (2009-14) is a spatial strategy that addresses the need to manage change. may be necessary to appraisal be considered when determining The Nidderdale AONB Heritage Strategy, safeguard this special an planning applications which could affect a conservation area or its setting. approved April 2009, identifies the interest; objectives, policies and actions required to identify opportunities 2.3 In determining planning applications for the sustainable management of for enhancement. for development within Conservation heritage in the AONB. Areas and applications for Conservation Area consent, the Council will give 2.6 Involving the community and raising considerable weight to the content of public awareness is an integral part of Conservation Area character appraisals. the appraisal process and needs to be The consideration of proposals in the approached in a pro-active and innovative context of the description contained in way. Community involvement helps to these appraisals will be an important bring valuable public understanding and factor in deciding whether a proposal has ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. an adverse affect on the character and A report, included in the appendix, details appearance of a Conservation Area and, how the local community was involved therefore, whether it is contrary to saved and the contribution it has made to this Local Plan Policy HD3 (which is the key Appraisal. p. 2 Middlesmoor Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 16 November 2011 3 Historic development & archaeology 3.1 There is little known recorded history as 3.3 Much of the village is thought to date from 3.5 The Victorian period saw a flourishing to the origins of Middlesmoor, though it the eighteenth century, with few older non-conformist movement, evidenced in is