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Latest : Conservation Area Appraisals (CAA) - ongoing
The 4 year review (2007-11) of all 52 conservation areas in
Harrogate District includes workshops with locals and amenity
groups to help produce draft Appraisals. Consultation is
an essential element and the Council invites comment on draft
Appraisals - comments are analysed and may lead to changes in an
Appraisal document and/or a Conservation Area boundary.
Adopted Appraisals will suprecede the current Conservation Area
Designation Statements (edited versions of which form the leaflets
available to download from the table below).
Conservation Areas
nb: Apart from recently adopted
Conservation Area Appraisals, the Conservation Area leaflets
in the table below were published in 1995. All 52 of
the District's Conservation Areas will be reviewed between
2007 and 2011*. When adopted
they will replace the 1995 leaflet in this table, their
adoption date will be emphasised by red text.
(*Consultation has taken place already for
the draft Appraisals for: Follifoot (3.0Mb),
Green
Hammerton (3.1Mb), Hampsthwaite (3.7Mb),
Knaresborough - Part A
(8Mb) and Part
B(8Mb), Ramsgill (3.3Mb), Goldsborough (3.7Mb),
Masham (4.4Mb),
Ripon - Part
A(7.0Mb) and Part B(9.8Mb) Roecliffe and Pateley
Bridge (5.8Mb). The Conservation & Design Team
will consider all comments in recommending any amendments to
the Appraisals. Once approved by the Cabinet Member, the
Appraisals will be available to download from coloured
cells in the main table below.)
Designated by the Council, Conservation Areas are
principally concerned with the man-made environment and are usually
identified in built-up areas (conservation in terms of the natural environment is dealt with elswhere on
the website). Designation gives an area more protection
against "insensitive" development or redevelopment.
Conservation Areas range from the large part of the Victorian
centre of Harrogate, 512 hectares (ha) down to small rural
hamlets like Middlesmoor (2 ha) and the model villages of Ripley
(16 ha) and Baldersby St James (3 ha).
Harrogate District has 52 Conservation Areas, each with a
'Designation Statement'. Leaflets based on an edited version
of the Statement are available to download from the following
table: each includes a brief history, architectural
analysis, simplified map of the Conservation Area, details of
additional controls upon development/ restoration/ renovation
and potential grant assistance. There are also 'map
only' pictures (jpegs) of the Conservation Areas (showing
listed buildings* and Ancient Monuments). *nb. These maps were
created with the best information at the time of publication but
should not be considered of proof of listing - buildings may be
'spot listed' at any time in the future - contact English
Heritage to get a definitive
answer. For more details on a Conservation
Area contact us on tel. (01423) 556589.
| General Conservation Areas (167kb) | Aldborough adopted 12 Nov 2008 (3.4Mb) map only (247kb) | Baldersby St James (197kb) map only (296kb) |
| Bilton in Ainsty (206kb) map only (333kb) | Bishop Monkton CA Appraisal adopted 15 Oct 2008 (3.3Mb) map only (250kb) | Bishopton (180kb) map only (371kb) |
| Boroughbridge adopted 12 Nov 2008(2.7Mb) map only (215kb) | Burton Leonard (260kb) map only (316kb) | Clifton (240kb) map only (268kb) |
|
Coneythorpe (260kb) map only (258kb)
|
Denton (260kb) map only (306kb) | Farnham (225kb) map only (354kb) |
| Fearby (260kb) map only (362kb) | Follifoot (225kb) map only (435kb) - see also draft CAA above | Glasshouses CA Appraisal adopted 29 Aug 2007 (4.1Mb) or map only (266kb) |
| Goldsborough (185kb) map only (206kb) - see also draft CAA above | Great Ouseburn (170kb) map only (323kb) | Green Hammerton (205kb) map only (346kb) - see also draft CAA above |
| Hackfall (255kb) map only (451kb) | Hampsthwaite (180kb) map only (391kb) - see also draft CAA above | Harrogate (845kb)map only NE (535kb) map only NW(542kb) map only SE (753kb) map only SW (508kb) |
| Healey (180kb) map only (266kb) | Hunsingore (220kb) map only (294kb) | Kirkby Overblow (190kb) map only (316kb) |
| Kirk Deighton CA Appraisal adopted 15 Oct 2008 (3.0Mb) map only (250kb) | Kirk Hammerton adopted 12 Nov 2008 (3.1Mb) map only (201kb) | Knaresborough (330kb) map only (653kb) - see also draft CAA above |
| Leathley (205kb) map only (218kb) | Little Ouseburn adopted 12 Nov 2008 (2.9Mb) map only (174kb) | Lofthouse (170kb) map only (298kb) |
| Marton cum Grafton (180kb) map only (367kb) | Masham (240kb) map only (464kb) - see also draft CAA above | Middlesmoor (210kb) map only (176kb) |
| Nesfield (195kb) map only (296kb) | North Deighton (180kb) map only (281kb) | Nun Monkton (260kb) map only (349kb) |
| Pannal (310kb) map only (458kb) | Pateley Bridge (303kb) map only (535kb) - see also draft CAA above | Plompton (270kb) map only (250kb) |
| Ramsgill (210kb) map only (293kb) - see also draft CAA above | Ripley (190kb) map only (327kb) | Ripon (320kb) map only (662kb) - see also draft CAA above |
| Roecliffe (160kb) map only (352kb) - see also draft CAA above | Scriven (160kb) map only (507kb) | Spofforth CA Appraisal adopted 15 Oct 2008 (3.1Mb) map only 250kb) |
| Staveley (200kb) map only (355kb) | Studley Roger (150kb) map only (277kb) | Timble (200kb) map only (266kb) |
| Tockwith (235kb) map only (405kb) | Wath (Nidderdale) (170kb) map only (309kb) | Wath (Ripon) (170kb) map only (242kb) |
| Weston (150kb) map only (452kb) | Whixley CA Appraisal adopted 29 Aug 2007 (3.8Mb) or map only (210kb) |
Conservation Areas and development/demolition
Listed buildings and buildings (& trees) within
Conservation Areas enjoy additional planning protection. Go
to our Planning Application Forms page
to get a 'Listed Buildings Consent Form', 'Conservation Area
Consent Form' or a form for 'Notice of Intent to Carry Out
Tree Work Within A Conservation Area'.
A thorough guide (for builders/developers) relating
specifically to the Control of Demolition in Conservation Areas
(130kb) was produced by the Council in January
2004.
Also see our Supplementary Planning
Guidance.
Article 4 Direction made to restrict painting of buildings in Harrogate Conservation Area
On 9 Dec 2005, the Council made a Direction (under the General
Permitted Development Order 1995) so that anyone wishing to paint
any previously unpainted walling, whether stone, brick or render
(or repainting walls in a different colour) in Harrogate
Conservation Area* must apply for Planning
permission. This includes the principal
building, any outbuildings and boundary walls.
The Direction was approved by the Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister on 7 April 2006. *(there are certain exclusions
- commercial area of Waterloo Street/Chatsworth Road and the
residential areas of High Harrogate, Wheatlands, and the western
and northern parts of the Duchy Estate.) This measure
was taken to stem an increasing incidence of property owners in the
Conservation Area painting their properties' facades which both the
Council and Harrogate Civic Society consider to be detrimental to
the building's architectural appeal and the appearance of the
Conservation Area in general. Download and read
the Article 4 Direction document (1.9Mb including
map). For more information on this contact tel.
(01423) 556589.