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Conservation areas

Conservation Area

An area of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.

The Borough Council has a duty under present legislation to designate those areas of the Borough considered to have outstanding historic or architectural interest.  Conservation Areas serve not only to protect the best of the Borough's townscape and natural environment but also to illustrate the evolution of the Borough and provide an historic framework for future development.  The Local Planning Authority is required to keep the designation of Conservation Areas under review.

There are nineteen Conservation Areas in the Borough. These are valuable assets by virtue of their diversity of character, their special characteristics and their generally strong image-forming capacity. The additional powers which apply to them in terms of development proposals make further designations or extensions to existing areas important in recognising and maintaining this diversity throughout the built environment of the Borough.

List of Conservation areas

List of Conservation areas .pdf 

Policies in the Replacement Local Plan are designed to ensure that permissible development in conservation areas is undertaken in such a way as to achieve a solution which conserves and enhances the particular characteristics of the designated area.

Replacement Local Plan Policy BE.7

Replacement Local Plan Policy BE.8

Conservation Area Character Appraisal

A published document defining the special architectural or historic interest that warranted the area being designated.

Conservation Area Consent

Consent required for the demolition of an unlisted building within a conservation area.

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