GLASSHOUSES Conservation Area Character Appraisal Approved 29 August 2007 Glasshouses Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 29 August 2007 p. 29 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 2 2. Planning policy context .................................................................................................. 2 3. Historic development & archaeology .............................................................................3 4. Location & setting .......................................................................................................... 4 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 7 6. Form & character of buildings ....................................................................................... 9 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 12 Map 1: Historic development ...........................................................................................15 Map 2: Glasshouses Conservation Area boundary ......................................................... 16 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 17 Map 4: Landscape analysis .............................................................................................18 Appendix A: Management strategy ...................................................................................................... 19 Monitoring & review ......................................................................................................... 19 Maintaining quality ........................................................................................................... 19 Conservation Area boundary review ................................................................................ 19 The management of change ............................................................................................ 20 Opportunities for enhancement ....................................................................................... 20 Landscape project areas ................................................................................................ 23 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................25 Appendix B: Public consultation .................................................................................... 26 Appendix C: Further reading .........................................................................................27 This and other Planning documents are or will be made available in large copy print, audio cassette, 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. 30 Glasshouses Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 29 August 2007 1. Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to 1.3 The main function of the Conservation 1.5 Glasshouses Conservation Area was define and analyse the special interest Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works first designated in 1994. It was reviewed which constitutes the character and app- in the Conservation Area have regard to in 2007 and, following consultation, the earance of a place. It is these qualities, the special qualities of the area and to boundary was amended on 29th August which warrant the designation of a devise a strategy to protect these qualities. 2007. This Appraisal aims to describe Conservation Area. This Appraisal has The Appraisal will help us understand Glasshouses as it is today and identify been approved by Harrogate Borough the impact that development proposals the special character and distinctiveness Council, to form an evidence base for the would have on the Conservation Area of its setting, buildings and open spaces. Local Development Framework (LDF). It and whether these are acceptable and/or Having identified those special qualities, is therefore a material consideration when appropriate. the Appraisal will examine whether determining applications for development, opportunities exist to protect and considering planning appeals or proposing 1.4 Defining the character of an area is enhance its character. works for the preservation or enhancement not a straightforward exercise and it is of the area. It will also form the basis for a impossible to reach a truly objective 1.6 By identifying what makes Glasshouses subsequent Management Strategy, which view. The statement of character and special or distinctive, it is suggested that will contain proposals and policies for appearance in this Appraisal is based any future change, whether to individual the conservation and enhancement on various detailed methods of analysis buildings, building groups or the village as of the area. recommended by English Heritage. a whole, will be based on this understand- Various different qualities are looked at ing of the past and present character of 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and including: historical development, building the village. In this way, we can manage guidance to those wishing to carry out materials, and relationships between built future change to ensure it makes a posi- works in the Conservation Area whether and open spaces. Although appraisals aim tive contribution towards preserving or or not they require planning approval. to be comprehensive the omission of any enhancing its special character. It is a useful source of information for particular building, feature or space should property owners, agents, applicants and not be taken to imply that it is members of the public who live or work in of no interest. the village of Glasshouses. Furthermore, the Appraisal provides guidance to those responsible for, or influential in, making land management decisions e.g. Harrogate Borough Council, Parish and Town Councils, Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), DEFRA in relation to Stewardship Schemes, the Forestry Commission, etc. as well as private landowners. Glasshouses from across the valley. Glasshouses Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 29 August 2007 p. 1 2. Planning policy context Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate conservation areas. The scope of Policy The principal objectives of the “areas of special architectural or historic HD3 also covers development proposals Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance outside conservation areas which would of which it is desirable to preserve or affect its setting or views into or out to define and record the enhance” as conservation areas under of the area. special character and section 69 of the Planning (Listed 2.4 Glasshouses is in the Nidderdale Area of interest of Glasshouses; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The same Act also requires local Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In planning authorities periodically to review 1994, in recognition of the quality of its to raise public conservation areas. landscape the Countryside Commission awareness of the aims designated the Nidderdale AONB. Saved and objectives of the 2.2 Government guidance on all development Policy C1 from the Harrogate District Local Conservation Area affecting conservation areas is set out Plan, provides that priority will be given designation and stimulate in Planning Policy Guidance Note 15: to the conservation of the natural beauty their involvement in the Planning and the Historic Environment of the landscape and any development (PPG15). PPG 15 advises local auth- should reflect the local distinctiveness of protection of its character; orities to define the elements that make the area. the special character or appearance of to identify what is worthy conservation areas in order to provide 2.5 The Nidderdale AONB Management of preservation to aid a sound basis on which to develop Plan (2009-14) is a spatial strategy that understanding;· local planning policies, preservation or addresses the need to manage change. enhancement strategies and to make The Nidderdale AONB Heritage Strategy, development control decisions. approved April 2009, identifies the object- to assess the action that ives, policies and actions required for the may be necessary to 2.3 In determining planning applications for sustainable management of heritage safeguard this special development within conservation areas in the AONB. interest; and applications for conservation area consent, the Council will give considerable 2.6 Involving the community and raising to identify opportunities weight to the content of conservation area public awareness is an integral part of the Appraisal process and needs to be app- for enhancement. character appraisals. The consideration of proposals in the context of the roached in a pro-active and innovative description contained in these appraisals way. Community involvement helps to will be an important factor in deciding bring valuable public understanding and whether a proposal would have an adverse ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. A effect on the character and appearance report included in the Appendix details of the Conservation Area, and therefore, how the local community has been whether