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Planning Agents’ Forum

Chy Trevail, Beacon Technology Park, Bodmin PL31 2FR 13 March 2020 Hayley Jewels Head of Development Management

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Structure of the morning

• Welcome – Hayley Jewels, Head of Development Management
• Cornwall’s historic environment - Colin Buck, Catherine Marlow, Ben Dancer
• Distinctive Cornwall – Peter Herring
• Cornwall Design Guide – Emily Rubin

Coffee break – view marketplace stalls

• Development Management update – Hayley Jewels
• Policy update – Ellie Inglis-Woolcock
• Section 106 update – Jane Astbury, Ben Curnow
• Question Time – Hayley Jewels, Peter Phillips, DM Group Leaders

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Protecting Cornwall’s heritage and planning for

• ur future

October 2019

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Historic Environment Planning Team

Colin Buck, Senior Development Officer Historic Environment

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Putting things into context

• 12,552 listed buildings
• 1,345 scheduled monuments
• 145 Conservation areas covering 4,411 ha
• 37 registered parks and gardens
• 8 designated wrecks
• 2 registered battlefields
• World Heritage Site of 18,222 ha

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Who are we?

Area 1. Nina Paternoster (SDO) nina.paternoster@cornwall.gov.uk 01872 224315/07973 813556 Area 2 & 3. Colin Buck (SDO) colin.buck@cornwall.gov.uk 01208 262841/07968 892144 Area 4. Georgina Murray (DO) georgina.murray@cornwall.gov.uk 01872 324798 Area 5. Louise Whitby (DO) louise.whitby@cornwall.gov.uk 01208 265608/07889 654266 Area 6 & 7. Vic Robinson (SDO) vic.robinson@cornwall.gov.uk 01726 223454/07484 908922 Area 8. Kate Loubser (DO) kate.loubser@cornwall.gov.uk 07483 147946

• Archaeology. Phil Copleston (SDO)

phil.copleston@cornwall.gov.uk 01579 341406/07973 813571 Colin Sellars (Group Leader), colin.sellars@Cornwall.gov.uk 01208 265666 Tammy White (SDO), tammy.white@cornwall.gov.uk 01208 265714

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What do we offer?

• Responding to Listed Building Consent and

Conservation Area applications

• Responding to Planning Archaeology applications
• Providing pre-application advice: Specialist

Historic Building Advice Pre-Applications and standard Planning Pre-app advice

• Expedited services to confirm compliance with

Listed Building Consent

• Specialist advice and input into PPAs

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Noted Issues

• Applications often do not adequately describe the significance of

the heritage asset: → Difficult for us to assess impacts upon site significance → So often request more detail → = Delays

• Guidance to produce Heritage Impact Statement
• Refer to suitably qualified conservation specialists (IHBC)
• Requests for pre-application (HBA) do not always contain

sufficient information. → Unable to adequately comment → = Generic response and delays

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Historic Environment Planning Team hep@cornwall.gov.uk

What makes Cornwall Cornish??

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The role of Historic England in the planning process

Catherine Marlow Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas

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April 2015: English Heritage

English Heritage

• A charitable trust that

looks after the National Collection of sites, buildings and monuments

• Properties open to the

public Historic England

• A public body that

provides expert advice to owners and LPAs

• Designations /

protection

• Champions and

educates

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Our involvement in Planning, as a statutory consultee

▪ Larger (>1000sq m) development schemes in conservation areas ▪ LBCs for grade II* and grade I listed buildings, or where development affects a II* or I RPG ▪ LBCs for ‘demolition’ of grade II listed buildings ▪ LPAs own applications ▪ Where development affects a Scheduled Monument or battlefield ▪ Ecclesiastical exemptions

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What we might say…

▪ Support! a beneficial/positive scheme ▪ Concerns lack of information or clarity, elements need to be adjusted, justification unclear ▪ Strong concerns we have real concerns about the proposal (in principle or detail) ▪ Concerns/object if nothing changes, we will object but all is not yet lost! ▪ Object we object and may have the application ‘called in’ if our advice is ignored

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Our advice service

▪ Pre-application advice – a free single cycle (site visit/meeting and formal letter) ▪ Extended pre-application advice – a paid for service on a cost recovery basis (quoted to a max. sum) ▪ Designation assessments ,and minor amendments to list descriptions etc. ▪ Conservation team advice, including practical, technical and scientific colleagues We also provide advice to LPAs on regeneration schemes, infrastructure projects, WHS, and strategy / policy

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How do you start the advice process?

catherine.marlow@historicengland.org.uk southwestcasework@historicengland.org.uk https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/our- planning-services/charter/our-pre-application- advisory-service/ https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/our- planning-services/charter/listing-and-our-advisory- service/

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What do we need from you?

The more detail you provide, the more meaningful our response is – and the more value you get from your free go! ➢ A basic/draft objective heritage statement / heritage impact assessment ➢ Scaled drawings ➢ Location plan ➢ Contact details

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HE Publications

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Other guidance on HE website:

• Fire in Thatched Roof

Properties

• Arson Risk Reduction
• Hot Works
• Fire Safety for Church

Buildings

• Insuring Historic Buildings and
• ther Heritage Assets
• Emergency Planning

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Training

• Online webinars – live interactive training, and

recorded webinars free to download

• HELM (Historic Environment Local Management)

courses – primarily for LPAs, regional agencies and national organisations but some spaces available to individuals/agents

• We also work with local societies and groups, SPAB,

IHBC, RTPI and others

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Ben Dancer, World Heritage Site Planning Officer

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What Is a World Heritage Site?

Governing instrument is a UNESCO Convention: Convention concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, (1972) “cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of Outstanding Value to humanity” Cultural heritage: “Monuments, groups of buildings and sites with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, ethnological or anthropological value” Rule book = Operational Guidelines http://whc.unesco.org/en/convention/

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Cornish Mining Outstanding Universal Value – key points

• inscribed for its significance – not aesthetic appeal, (unlike an AONB, for example)
• essentially industrial in character
• landscape scale – eg includes streets/ townscapes, whole mine sites with waste

dumps, not just individual engine houses or monuments

• period of interest is 1700 – 1914 – features outside this date range may be linked,

eg as historical context, but not OUV

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The ten WHS areas – landscapes where these features survive Where do we find OUV?

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Cornish Mining World Heritage industrial landscape

Landscape elements (7 key “Attributes”): Mine sites Mine transport Ancillary industries Mining settlements Miners’ smallholdings Great houses, estates and gardens Mineralogical importance

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Mine Sites

Wheal Coates

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Poldice

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Transport

Morwellham Quay Luxulyan Valley viaduct

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Liskeard and Caradon Railway

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Associated Industries

Mount Foundry, Tavistock Bickford-Smith’s Fuseworks, Camborne - global centre of safety fuse manufacture

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Settlements & Social Infrastructure

“Stippy Stappy” terrace, St Agnes Bedford Cottages, Tavistock

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Camborne

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interrelationship of social and industrial structures is a characteristic of mining’s cultural landscape South Crofty, Pool

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Miners’ smallholdings

St Agnes Carnmenellis

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Great Houses & Gardens

Godolphin House Cotehele Estate

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Trevarno House and Garden

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What the UK Government is required to do by the World Heritage Convention

“ Protect, conserve and enhance the OUV” ( and authenticity, integrity & setting)

Responsibility for delivering this (and other aspects of WHS management), falls to the local planning authorities, via the WHS Management Plan.

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Other useful tools/ sources for understanding some of the concepts introduced: The Protection & Management of World Heritage Sites in England – Historic England (Revision note June 2015) ICOMOS – eg Heritage Impact Assessment Guidelines http://www.icomos-uk.org/world-heritage/ Cornish Mining SPD Adopted 2017 https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/planning- policy/adopted-plans/planning-policy-guidance/cornwall-and-west-devon-mining- landscape-world-heritage-site-supplementary-planning-document/ Pre-application service for major developments https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/37533268/whs-formal-pre-application-consultation- process.pdf

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Applying Cornish Cultural Distinctiveness

Pete Herring, Policy and Partnership Lead, Strategic Historic Environment

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“Cornwall’s rich and unique heritage, including its historic revived language and passionate communities, and that this cultural distinctiveness is an important factor in Cornwall’s local economy. It underpins tourism and is a key driver that attracts

• ther business to the location”.

Cornwall Devolution Deal, 2015

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Cornish Cultural Distinctiveness

Devolution Deal between UK Government and Cornwall Council

• The Cornish granted National Minority status in 2014.

Under the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities A study of Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness

• Commissioned by Cornwall Council and Historic England.

On behalf of Ertach Kernow (Heritage Kernow)

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Cornwall Local Plan Strategic Policies 2010-2030

Vision 1.15 The strong and diverse character of Cornwall is special. It gives us an important understanding of our place in the world…. The erosion of this valued character, for example, by globalisation and ‘standard’ building types must be guarded against. Objectives Objective 10 Enhance and reinforce local natural, landscape and historic character and distinctiveness and raise the quality of development through;

• a. Respecting the distinctive character of Cornwall’s diverse

landscapes;

• c. Excellence in design that manages change to maintain the

distinctive character and quality of Cornwall.

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And Policies

Policy 12 Design Development must ensure Cornwall’s enduring distinctiveness and maintain and enhance its distinctive natural and historic character.

• creating places with their own identity and

promoting local distinctiveness while not preventing or discouraging appropriate innovation.

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Policy 24 Historic Environment

Development proposals will be permitted where they would sustain the cultural distinctiveness and significance of Cornwall’s historic rural, urban and coastal environment by protecting, conserving and where appropriate enhancing the significance of designated and non-designated assets and their settings. All development proposals should be informed by proportionate historic environment assessments and evaluations (such as heritage impact assessments, etc)

• identifying the significance of all heritage assets that would be

affected by the proposals

• and the nature and degree of any effects and demonstrating

how, in order of preference, any harm will be avoided, minimised

• r mitigated.

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The Cornwall Cultural Distinctiveness project

Commissioned to “ensure that the culturally distinctive values of the historic environment are fully recognised in designing change and making planning decisions”

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The study examined the ways in which Cornwall is indeed different, distinctive

Its remarkable heritage reflects its unusually rich diversity.

• A Celtic language, and a Cornish way with the English language
• A uniquely diverse rural, industrial, urban and marine economy
• Distinctive responses to its natural topography’s challenges and opportunities
• Distinctive adaptations of a highly varied natural environment
• Distinctive Cornish spirit, Onen hag Oll, One and All, the ways we have of

relating to place, to each other, to our culture, and to those of others

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Distinctively Cornish

And distinctive of particular parts of Cornwall: distinctively Launceston

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To help increase understanding of the distinctiveness of places in Cornwall

And establish how that distinctiveness can best inform the design of new development

• Creating

distinctiveness assessments to guide conservation, and to design change

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Two approaches to cultural distinctiveness

Types of buildings, sites, landscape and ways of doing things that are 1 Particular to Cornwall, and usually to a locality or place within it 2 Typical of Cornwall or a locality within it, usually through resonance with local cultural themes.

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Particular to Cornwall

Identification of types of asset particular to Cornwall, or to certain parts of Cornwall

• Type of site or feature (courtyard house; fogou; huer’s hut, plein an gwarry;

preaching pit, etc)

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Particular to Cornwall

• Cross-contour strip fields
• Using Polyphant, Cataclews or

Pentewan stone

Identification of qualities, character or material particular to Cornwall, or to a part of Cornwall

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Particular to Cornwall

If also found beyond Cornwall, particular Cornish distinctiveness may be recognised in other ways:

• Especially dense distributions in

Cornwall (e.g. cliff castles, fish cellars, pan kilns)

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Particular to Cornwall: origins in Cornwall

(e.g. Cornish engine houses, Rawlinson’s patent slating, Cornish Unit houses)

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More places are distinctively Cornish through being Typical or representative of Cornwall

Again, this can relate to type, quality or character. Public discourse on Cornish-ness resolve into the five distinctiveness themes

• Language
• The unusually diversified economy
• Responses to the natural topography
• Adaptations of the natural environment
• Reflections of a distinctive Cornish spirit

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Closeness of distinctiveness and characterisation

• Distinctive = to have a distinct

character

• Character = distinctive nature,

features, or qualities

• Can use Historic Landscape

Characterisation (HLC), initiated in Cornwall in the 1990s, to support rapid distinctiveness assessments

• f places
• And Historic characterisations of

Cornish towns

• To support planning, design,

protection and good management

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The Assessment Framework

This assessment framework can be adapted

• to be slotted into any
• ther heritage

assessment,

• to inform

designation,

• justify recording or

research,

• inform design of

change,

• inform planning

decisions,

• or celebrate

Cornwall’s heritage

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To avoid the dangers in

• valuing only what is unique,
• attempting to define fixed palettes of distinctive types, styles, materials, etc

Appreciating the need to understand a place, its character and then its distinctiveness before designing change Distinctiveness encourages a nuanced approach to the past, present and future

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Distinctiveness is threaded through Ertach Kernow’s Heritage Strategy for Cornwall: ‘Heritage at the Heart of an Evolving Cornwall’ Ambition 1 Everyone will benefit from experiencing Cornwall’s heritage and historic environment. Ambition 2 We will improve our understanding of Cornwall and its heritage, and especially its distinctiveness. Ambition 3 We will transform the many ways we value Cornwall’s heritage into individual and community empowerment, responsibility and action. Ambition 4 We will use improved understanding, clearer appreciation of value, and wider community engagement to support improvements in the ways Cornwall’s heritage is cared for

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Outcomes

1. Heritage engagement is broadened to ‘one and all’. Health, well-being and enjoyment are increased; knowledge is shared; and voices and audiences are

• extended. Greater emphasis is placed on the communal value of Cornwall’s

historic environment and its cultural distinctiveness. 2. Cornwall’s reputation for innovation in heritage work is extended. 3. Better understanding of our heritage and the challenges that it faces. 4. Ensuring heritage activity reflects Cornwall’s diversity. 5. The economic value of Cornwall’s heritage will be apparent and used to inform decision making. 6. The historic environment sector responds fully to the challenges of climate change, informing plans for adaptation and mitigation, and for environmental growth and sustainability. 7. Cornwall-specific guidance on maintaining, repairing and restoring distinctively Cornish types of heritage asset, from buildings to landscape is produced and made widely available. 8. Heritage and distinctiveness advice contributes positively and in a timely way to designation, design, decision-making and enforcement during place-shaping and regeneration, and when planning development.

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Guidance on using Distinctiveness assessment in decision-making

Valuing: designating assets and places of local significance, eg through Local Listing Valuing: supporting applications for statutory Listing Caring: securing distinctiveness in repair, maintenance and restoration of buildings Caring: securing distinctiveness through land management Caring: drawing on Distinctiveness principles when designing change: new build; restoration; land use change, etc. Planning: feeding distinctiveness into Neighbourhood Development Plans Planning: feeding distinctiveness into master-planning for major developments Planning: use in Development Management decision-making Understanding: undertaking research to support better understanding of distinctiveness, its significance, and the ways it may be applied Celebrating: using distinctiveness to in the presentation of Cornwall’s heritage

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The Cornwall Design Guide

Emily Rubin Principal Development Officer

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Draft Design Guide: Overview

• Residential focus
• Aim to bolster quality to improve

distinctiveness, liveability, wellbeing, climate change resilience, sustainability & wildlife

• Big emphasis on design process –

to be informed by a proportionate Context Appraisal

• Big emphasis on early & ongoing

engagement

• Will link to other standards

including Distinctiveness Toolkit

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Effective Design Process

• Design should be guided by the character
• f historic & traditional forms in &

around the site, taking into account e.g.:

• buildings
• landscapes
• views
• place names
• Includes guidance on preparing Heritage

Statements

• Links to Distinctiveness Toolkit, other CC

resources & external guidance

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Locally Distinctive

• Sets out the importance of locally

distinctive design including:

• Responsive, sensitive &

relevant

• Stronger affiliations
• Sense of ownership
• More likely to be cared for
• Holds value & relevance over

time

• Retaining features can reduce

costs

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Responding to the Context Appraisal

• Develop in harmony with the natural

landscape

• Retain green infrastructure & landmarks
• Work with the topography & climatic

conditions

• Respect local street patterns, urban grain,

density, street width, building lines etc

• Scale, proportions, details & materials of

buildings are sensitive to context

• Look at place names & cultural associations
• Allows for sensitive innovation, modern

lifestyles & climate change demands

• Existing insensitive development doesn’t set a

precedent

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Latest position

• Recent consultation 20 January - 2nd March
• Currently considering feedback
• very detailed
• broad range of opinions
• Scheduled to adopt later in the spring
• More details: www.cornwall.gov.uk/designguide

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Break

Coffee/tea and the chance to talk to our officers and view our info stands:

• Rooms 3 and 4:
• Affordable Housing
• CIL Helpdesk
• Cornwall Building Control
• Customer Relations
• Empty Homes Team
• Neighbourhood Planning
• Room 5:
• Tea/Coffee
• Cornwall’s Climate Emergency Team
• Historic England and Historic Environment teams
• Planning Policy Team