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CONSULTATION ON PROPOSED NEW CONSERVATION AREA FOR STARBECK SPA
CONFIRMED ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION FOR GREAT OUSEBURN CONSERVATION AREA.
Harrogate Borough Council’s Planning Committee confirmed the Article 4 Direction for Great Ouseburn Conservation Area on 31 January 2012. The Article 4 Direction came into effect on Friday 12 August 2011 and notice was served pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the General Permitted Development Order (GPDO), as amended. The Article 4 Direction will remain extant in perpetuity. Read the
Press Notice (14KB).
Conservation Area Appraisals - REVIEW completed
The four year review (2007-11) of Harrogate district's 52 conservation areas included workshops with local residents and amenity groups to help produce draft Appraisals - consultation was an essential element and the council invited comment on the drafts which helped inform revision of the Appraisal documents and/or conservation area boundaries. The Appraisals were approved by the Cabinet Member for Planning, Transport and Economic Development (and supercede Conservation Area Designation Statements which were produced in the mid 1990s). The Appraisals are full colour documents with photographs and maps - you can download a copy of each from the list below.
The Conservation and Design team has started work on a Conservation Area Management Strategy to help preserve and enhance all of the district’s conservation areas as part of the Heritage SPD (Supplementary Planning Document). The Team will also assess potential conservation areas suggested by parish councils and amenity societies (see Starbeck Spa draft CAA consultation, at the top of this page).
The following list contains approved Conservation Area Appraisals (from the 2007-11 review):
- Aldborough CAA approved 12.11.08 (3.6Mb)
- Baldersby St James CAA approved 16.11.11(2.3Mb)
- Bilton in Ainsty CAA approved 28.10.09 (1.9Mb)
- Bishop Monkton CAA approved 15.10.08 (3.3Mb)
- Bishopton CAA approved 14.10.09 (2.0Mb)
- Boroughbridge CAA approved 12.11.08 (2.7Mb)
- Burton Leonard CAA approved 24.02.10 (4.2Mb)
- Clifton CAA approved 13.01.11 (2.8Mb)
- Coneythorpe CAA approved 05.10.11 (3.2Mb)
- Denton CAA approved 09.12.09 (3.1Mb)
- Farnham CAA approved 09.11.11 (3.68Mb)
- Fearby CAA approved 26.01.11 (3.0Mb)
- Follifoot CAA approved 18.03.09 (1.7Mb)
- Glasshouses CAA approved 29.08.07 (1.9Mb)
- Goldsborough CAA approved 12.12.08 (3.5Mb)
- Great Ouseburn CAA approved 16.09.11 (inc Article 4 Direction documents) (3.7Mb)
- Green Hammerton CAA approved 04.02.09 (2.9Mb)
- Hackfall CAA approved 14.12.11 (4.75Mb)
- Hunsingore CAA approved 21.09.11 (2.8Mb)
- Hampsthwaite CAA adopted 18.02.09 (3.8Mb)
- Harrogate CAA approved 16.12.10 Part 1 of 2 (6.3Mb) Part 2 of 2 (6Mb)
- Healey CAA approved 05.10.11 (3.2Mb)
- Marton cum Grafton CAA approved 2.11.11 (4.2Mb) n.b. this CAA document should be read in conjunction with Marton cum Grafton Village Design Statement (1Mb) which itself has been approved by the Cabinet Member (Planning, Transport and Economic Development) on 2nd November 2011 as Supplementary Planning Guidance subject to minor changes ie amending the text from 'SPD' to 'SPG' and to include a replacement Appendix 1 to include up to date local planning policies.
Masham CAA approved 10.12.08 (2.7Mb)
- Middlesmoor CAA approved 16.11.11(3.0Mb)
Pannal CAA approved 13.01.11 (5.0Mb)
Ripley CAA approved 25.11.09 (3.0Mb)
Ripon CAA approved 24.06.09 (5.7Mb)
Scriven CAA approved 27.01.10 (4.7Mb)
- Studley Roger CAA approved 2.11.11(4.2Mb)
- Timble CAA approved 14.12.11 (3.2Mb)
- Weston CAA approved 16.11.11 (3.6Mb)
Whixley CAA approved 29.08.07 (3.8Mb)
*Conservation Areas - general information
Designated by the council, conservation areas are concerned mainly with the man-made environment and are usually built-up areas (conservation regarding the
natural environment is dealt with elsewhere on our website). Designation as a conservation area gives an area more protection against "insensitive" development or redevelopment. Conservation areas range from the large part of the Victorian centre of Harrogate town, 512 hectares (ha) to small rural hamlets like Middlesmoor (2 ha) and the model villages of Ripley (16 ha) and Baldersby St James (3 ha). For more details on a conservation area please read the relevant Conservation Area Appraisal.
Conservation Areas and development/demolition
Listed buildings and buildings (and trees) within conservation areas may 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'.
Article 4 Direction to restrict painting
of buildings in Harrogate Conservation Area
On 9 December 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 the facades of their property, 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 call (01423) 556589.
Article 4 Direction to CONTROL SOME TYPES OF building
alterations FORMERLY DEEMED as 'Permitted development'
CONFIRMED ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION FOR GREAT OUSEBURN CONSERVATION AREA. Harrogate Borough Council’s Planning Committee confirmed the Article 4 Direction for Great Ouseburn Conservation Area on 31 January 2012. The Article 4 Direction came into effect on Friday 12 August 2011 and notice was served pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the General Permitted Development Order (GPDO), as amended. The Article 4 Direction will remain extant in perpetuity. Read the council's Committee Report on this issue.
A recent review of the village conservation area was carried out with the help of the Parish Council and local residents. This review identified that a number of unsympathetic alterations and extensions carried out by property owners under ’permitted development’ rights are having a detrimental effect on the special character and appearance of the conservation area and the quality of the historic environment. The use of an Article 4 Direction is considered to be an appropriate response to help address this problem and is referenced in the management guidelines detailed in the conservation area Appraisal documents as one of a number of measures to help preserve and enhance the special character of the area, in line with government guidance.
Directions made under Article 4 (1) of the GPDO, as amended, are designed to bring under planning control particular types of development that would not normally need planning permission (classed as ‘permitted development’). The approved Article 4 Direction covers the whole of the designated conservation area in the village, as shown on a map in the Conservation Area Appraisal (approved on 16 September 2011). The ‘permitted development’ rights that are to be removed are detailed in the Schedule, a copy of which is appended to the Appraisal. Owners of dwelling houses within this area now need to apply for planning permission to carry out any development detailed in the Schedule on an elevation fronting a highway, waterway or open space in the area covered by the Article 4(1) Direction. A highway is defined as any public right of way. Open spaces include gap sites, large gardens or orchards, fields, greens or commons and spaces in the conservation area.
Please note, the Direction, together with a map of the affected area and a list of properties included has been appended to the pdf file of the approved conservation area Appraisal for Great Ouseburn which can be downloaded from the table on this page, but it can also be viewed during office hours (8.45am - 4.45pm) at the Planning Office, Knapping Mount, West Grove Road, Harrogate HG1 2AE.
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