PLOMPTON Conservation Area Character Appraisal Plompton Conservation Area Character Appraisal -approved approved 30 November 30 November 2011 2011p. a Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 2 2. Planning policy framework ............................................................................................ 2 3 Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4 Location & landscape setting ........................................................................................ 4 5. Landscape analysis ...................................................................................................... 5 6. The form & character of buildings ................................................................................. 7 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 12 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 14 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary .............................................................................. 15 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 16 Map 4: Landscape 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 ....................................................................................... 19 6 Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 19 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................ 23 Appendix B: Public consultation ..................................................................................... 24 Appendix C: Further reading .......................................................................................... 25 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. b Plompton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 30 November 2011 1 Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to define 1.3 The main function of the Conservation 1.5 Plompton Conservation Area was originally and analyse the special interest which Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works designated on 10th June 1993 and, constitutes the character and appearance in the Conservation Area have regard to following public consultation on the draft of of a place. It is these qualities which the special qualities of the area and to this Appraisal, it remains unchanged. warrant the designation of a Conservation devise a strategy to protect these qualities. Area. This Appraisal was approved The Appraisal will help us understand the 1.6 This Appraisal aims to describe Plompton by the Cabinet Member for Planning, impact that development proposals would as it is today and to identify the special Transport and Economic Development have on the Conservation Area character and distinctiveness of its setting, on 30 November 2011 and forms an and whether these are acceptable buildings and open spaces. Having “evidence base” for the Local Development and/or appropriate. identified those special qualities, the Framework (LDF). Consequently, it is a Appraisal examines whether opportunities material consideration when determining 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special exist to protect and enhance its character. architectural or historic interest is based applications for development, considering 1.7 By identifying what makes Plompton planning appeals or proposing works on a careful and objective analysis of the area, using a method of analysis special or distinctive it is suggested for the preservation or enhancement of that any future change, whether to the area. It also forms the basis for a recommended by English Heritage. Various qualities are reviewed including: individual buildings, building groups or the subsequent management strategy, which village as a whole, will be based on this will contain proposals and policies for historical development, building materials and relationships between built and open understanding of the past and the present the conservation and enhancement character of the settlement. In this way, of the area. spaces. Although an appraisal aims to be comprehensive, the omission of any we can manage future change to ensure 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and particular building, feature or space it makes a positive contribution towards guidance to those wishing to carry out should not be taken to imply that it preserving or enhancing its special works in the Conservation Area whether is of no interest. character. or not they require planning approval. So, it is a useful source of information for property owners, agents, applicants and members of the public who live or work in Plompton. Plompton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 30 November 2011 p. 1 2 Planning policy framework Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate description contained in these appraisals The principal objectives of the “areas of special architectural or historic will be an important factor in deciding Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance whether a proposal has an adverse affect of which it is desirable to preserve or on the character and appearance of a to define and record enhance” as conservation areas under conservation area and, therefore, whether the settlement’s special section 69 of the Planning (Listed it is contrary to saved Harrogate District character and interest; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act Local Plan Policy HD3 (which is the key 1990. The same Act also requires local policy for the control of development in to raise public awareness planning authorities to periodically review conservation areas). The scope of Policy of the aims and objectives conservation areas. HD3 also covers development proposals of the conservation area outside a conservation area, which would 2.2 Government guidance on all development designation and stimulate affect its setting or views into or out of the affecting conservation areas is set out in conservation area. their involvement in the Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning protection of its character; and the Historic Environment (PPS5). 2.4 Involving the community and raising to identify what is worthy PPS5 advises local authorities to define public awareness is an integral part of of preservation to aid the elements that make up the special the appraisal process and needs to be character or appearance of conservation approached in a pro-active and innovative understanding; areas in order to provide a sound basis on way. Community involvement helps to to assess the action that which to develop local planning policies, bring valuable public understanding and may be necessary to preservation or enhancement strategies ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. A safeguard this special and to make development control report, included in the appendix, details interest; and decisions. how the local community was involved and the contribution it has made to this to identify opportunities 2.3 In determining planning applications for Appraisal. for enhancement. development within conservation areas and applications for conservation area consent, the council will give considerable weight to the content of conservation area character appraisals. The consideration of proposals in the context of the p. 2 Plompton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 30 November 2011 3 Historic development & archaeology 3.1 The name of Plompton (or Plumpton) and associated farm buildings, the East directions all over the place. There is a fine probably means ‘the tun (homestead or and West Lodges, Plompton High Grange, lake at the foot of the rocks, forming many village) where plum trees grow’. Plompton Square and the small building to curious inlets. Seats are placed, in different the west of the Stables, previously thought situations; from whence, the inspector 3.2 The manor of Plompton was held by the to be a pigeon house or granary but now may, with the greatest advantage, mark all de Plompton family since Domesday until, thought to have been a brew house. the beauties of this romantic scene…”. after the death of Robert de Plompton without male heirs in the mid 18th century, 3.5 On acquiring the estate, Lascelles also 3.6 Painted by Turner in 1797, Plompton the entail was broken and the lordship commissioned Carr to dam the small beck Rocks was a place of popular