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Conservation Areas: Appraisal and Management Historic England Advice and getting the job done Reading 24 th th February 2016 24 Programme for the day Recap on pre-course learning Exercise 1: Identifying Special Historic Interest

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Conservation Areas: Appraisal and Management

Historic England Advice and getting the job done

Reading 24 24th

th February 2016

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Programme for the day

  • Recap on pre-course learning
  • Exercise 1: Identifying Special Historic Interest
  • Exercise 2: Assessing Character and Special Architectural

Interest

  • Preparing an Appraisal
  • Exercise 3: Considering management options
  • Implementing management options and monitoring change
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What did you learn?

  • Time for a

pub quiz

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Round 1, Fill in the blanks

  • Q1. What is the official

definition of a Conservation Area*

Areas of special historic or architectural interest the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance 1 point for each correct word (9 max.)

*S.69 (1a), Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990

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Round 2, Make a List

Q2

  • Q2. Identify three pieces of national policy,

guidance or advice that promotes the use of conservation area appraisals or similar evidence?

  • Q3. Identify three possible users of a

conservation area appraisal Q4 Q4. . Identify five uses of a conservation area appraisal

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Round 3. True or false?

A Conservation Area can include areas of Q

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Round 4, Sport, Television, Arts and Drama,

  • Q10. What does any of this have to do with

heritage?

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Swap your papers and add up your scores

  • Totals out of 25.
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  • Q1. What is the official definition of

a Conservation Area*

Areas of special historic or architectural interest the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance 1 point for each correct word (9 max.)

S.69 (1a), Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990

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  • Q2. What current National policy, guidance or advice

promotes the use of conservation area appraisals or similar evidence?

  • National Planning Policy Framework
  • National Planning Practice Guidance
  • Understanding Place: Conservation Area Designation,

Appraisal and Management

  • Historic England Planning Advice Note 4: Conservation Area

Appraisals

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Q3.Identify three possible users of a conservation area appraisal*

Development Control Officer District/County Councilor Highways department Parish Council Property

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Planning Policy Officer Developer – planning, consultant, architect, urban designer, landscape designer Conservation Officer Planning Inspector Tree officer *1 point for each, ½ bonus point for each user over 3, 1 point for a valid user not on our list. Amenity Societies / Residents Association Neighbourhood Planning Forum Historic England Heritage Lottery Fund

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  • Q4. Identify five uses of a conservation area

appraisal*

*1 point for each, ½ bonus point for each use over 3, 1 point for a valid user not on our list.

Justify the area’s designation evidence to fulfill duty to give ‘special consideration’ To review the boundary of the area (from time-to-time) Provide evidence to develop management proposals (Article 4?) – a statutory duty Inform owners – rights and requirements Information for

  • fficers re:

planning applications Identify what should be preserved vs ‘enhanced’ Develop consensus between Council and community Build support for protection – raise awareness Attract external funding Inform developers, encourage better applications, save

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Robust basis for decisions – implement policies Inform site specific planning policies / develop’t briefs Identify areas most at risk of decay and neglect

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Round 3. True or false?

  • False
  • True
  • True
  • False

Q

  • False
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Round 4. Popular Culture

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Identifying Special Historic Interest

  • What is the story of the area?
  • Does anything stand out as distinctive?
  • Does the area illustrate or provide a strong

connection with this story particularly well?

  • Form hypotheses - test through survey.
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Resources to use

  • The National Heritage List
  • Use it online
  • Use the map search

feature

  • Look for patterns in the

information

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Resources to use

  • Record Office ask for help, phone

ahead

  • Historic maps
  • Ordnance Survey
  • Tithe and Inclosure
  • Estate records
  • Trade directories
  • Local history
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Other sources

  • Victoria County History
  • Old-maps.co.uk
  • Local History Societies
  • Local history websites be

critical

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Resources to use

  • The Historic

Environment Record

  • Visit
  • Or use online
  • Archaeology
  • Historic buildings
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Exercise 1: Identifying Special Historic Interest

  • Use the form in

your pack to develop an outline chronology of the history of the study area

  • Identify possible

sources of special interest

Oxford Road

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What came before?

  • Prehistory?
  • A medieval Castle?
  • Roads to

from

  • Civil War defences
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What came before?

  • Gardens, nurseries,

paddocks

  • Turnpike roads
  • Inns
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  • Jesse Family

Speculations

  • middle class exodus
  • Municipal reform?
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What changed over time?

  • The impact of

new transport infrastructure

  • The city expands
  • ver its suburb
  • A change in

economy, demand and consumers?

  • Changing modes
  • f transport
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What changed

  • ver time?
  • High demand for

low cost housing – court housing

  • Filling in the grid
  • Later … slum

clearance

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What changed

  • ver time?
  • High demand for low

cost housing court housing

  • Filling in the grid
  • Later
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Has any recent change

  • bscured the

story?

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So what was the special interest?

  • The Changing role of Castle Hill? Medieval to

modern

  • Gentrification housing for the workers
  • Illustration of the impact of changing transport

and growth of industry

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Hypotheses to test

  • focus of special interest for architecture?
  • Survival of pre-1860s terraced artisan housing?
  • Use of locally distinctive materials Reading bricks?
  • Evidence of early/mid 19th Century speculative

development in the streetscene?

  • and grid iron residential streets?
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The Oxford Character Assessment Toolkit

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What contributes to character?

  • Spaces
  • Buildings
  • Green stuff, wet stuff, solid stuff, high stuff,

low stuff …

  • Views
  • The effects on your other senses
  • Activities and ‘busy-ness’
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What makes these characteristics?

  • These features make a place recognisable and distinct
  • The result of an historical process
  • Could be common or unusual
  • Singular or repeated
  • Physical features
  • Activities - People
  • Character is something that is continually changing
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Character Assessment

  • Adding value judgements
  • What is the ‘significance’ of each feature

as part of the whole?

  • What contributes positively / negatively?
  • How ‘important’ is it?
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Character Assessment Toolkits

  • Help you describe character
  • Help you justify value judgments
  • May help you work together
  • bservation

reflection analysis

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The Survey Tools

  • A detailed toolkit
  • A fast toolkit
  • A comparable

approach

  • Observations are

guided to have weight

  • A scoring system

to help convey positive and negative contributions

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One Area or Many?

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Things to bear in mind:

  • Record what you see
  • How is the history visible?
  • What features are repeated

(characteristic)? are they part of the architectural or historic interest?

  • Record the negative as well as

the positive

  • What disguises the special

interest?

  • What makes it harder to be in the

place?

  • Look beyond the limits of the area
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Scores

  • Compare your results
  • Do the scoring of the

positive, negative and neutral features together

  • Try to explain why you

gave these scores

  • Keep trying to refer back

to the special interest or ‘character as a whole’

  • Beware of relying on

aesthetic judgments alone

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Exercise 2: Castle Hill and Russell Street CA Sample study area

  • 1. In your groups, use the Initial

Reaction and one other page

  • f the toolkit to assess the

character of 1 street in the study area

  • 2. Report back on your street’s

top three key positive character features and three lowest scoring negative features / issues

Oxford Road

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Writing your Appraisal

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Historic England Advice Note 4 Consultation Draft

  • Changes resulting from consultation expected

to be minimal

  • approach
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Need for information to inform decision making managing change

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Designation

  • Ref. to para 127 - Local authorities must

ensure areas merit designation for special interest

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Significance = Special Interest

  • What makes the interest special?
  • Age, rarity, integrity, group value, identity
  • Context
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Significance = Special Interest

  • Focus of designated assets
  • Varied architectural styles or historic associations
  • Focus of industry/ philanthropy with local interest
  • Original, historically significant layout evident
  • Particular architectural style / traditional materials
  • Open areas relating to built fabric or spatial element
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Suggested Appraisal Content

  • Introduction
  • Planning Policy Context
  • Definition or Summary of Special

Interest

  • Location and Setting
  • Historical Development
  • Architectural Quality and Built

Form

  • Open Spaces, Parks, Gardens,

Trees

  • Character Zones
  • Positive Contributors
  • Locally Important Buildings
  • Audit of Heritage Assets
  • Assessment of Condition
  • Identifying the Boundary
  • Plan for Further Action
  • References, Appendices and

Contact Details

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So what does make a good appraisal?

  • Designed to fit the purpose/circumstance
  • Navigable
  • Informative and Relevant
  • Accessible
  • Accepted by decision makers and influencers
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Design with the use in mind

  • No
  • Which appraisals for what uses - part of

Heritage Strategy?

  • How will the presentation achieve your

aim?

  • vs Detail + Character Areas
  • vs. Overview
  • How is the intended audience catered for?
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Navigable

  • Is the most useful

information the first thing you see?

  • Can you find the

information you want quickly?

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Informative - relevant

  • Ensure decisions are based on

sustaining special interest and preserving or enhancing chara racter

  • r appeara

rance

  • Identify special interest
  • Build certainty
  • Define positive characteristics that

can be influenced in decisions clearly

  • Define negative features separately
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Provide analysis in your illustrations

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Accessible

  • Will the audience need an

interpreter?

  • Does some of the information

depend on technical language? is your limestone Oolitic or Corallian?

  • Can you present information in

when needed?

  • Present information in a number
  • f different formats
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Consultation

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Y

  • ur appraisal needs

to be accepted

  • How will you build consensus?
  • Is the method of production the

most useful information for decision making

  • Consultation report as Appendix?
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Involving the community

  • Stakeholders whose interest may be affected may

have a reasonable expectation to be consulted judge based on likely controversy

  • Consultation needs to be fair (use the

Gunning/Coughlan criteria?)*

*http://www.adminlaw.org.uk/docs/18%20January%202012%20Sheldon.pdf

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  • The Gunning principles are that:
  • (i) consultation must take place when the proposal is still at a

formative stage;

  • (ii) sufficient reasons must be put forward for the proposal to allow

for intelligent consideration and response;

  • (iii) adequate time must be given for consideration and response;

and

  • (iv) the product of consultation must be conscientiously taken into

account.

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Methods of consultation

  • Questionnaire before writing
  • Involvement in survey
  • Walk-in discussion surgery
  • Interactive workshop charrette
  • Bullet point draft consultation
  • Full draft consultation
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Recording Consultation

Counted answers - e.g. nos for and against Individual qualitative comment Considerati

  • n of the

comment Change proposed

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Drafting

  • Use a bullet point draft to get the O.K. for

controversial elements

  • Possible to share this with stakeholders before

formal consultation?

  • Use photo sheets and hand-drawn/coloured

maps to consult on images

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Consultation & Adoption

  • No controversy - do you still need to consult?
  • Consultation as awareness raising
  • No controversy Can it be endorsed by

delegated officer?

  • Publication point as awareness raising
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Preparing an appraisal

Planning Research/ Survey Stakeholder Engagement Drafting Consultation Adoption Implementing / Monitoring

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