Conservation area appraisals

What’s happening now?

All consultations with local people on the council's 17 conservation areas are now complete.

The council has adopted documents as Supplementary Planning Guidance to the North Lincolnshire Local Plan. These are for the conservation areas in:

• Alkborough
• Barton upon Humber
• Brigg
• Crowle
• Kirton in Lindsey
• Epworth
• Normanby
• Redbourne
• Saxby All Saints
• Burton upon Sather
• Scawby
• Winteringham

The Planning Committee (Policy meeting) will consider documents and reports on consultation for five conservation areas at its meeting on 11 November (Pittwood House).

These are:

Appleby

• Conservation area appraisal adoption draft October 2005 (56K)
• Supplementary planning guidance draft October 2005 (36K)
• Proposals map (368K)
• Proposals map (356K)
• Townscape analysis (356K)
• Responses (28K)

Barrow upon Humber

• Conservation area appraisal adoption draft October 2005 (60K)
• Supplementary planning guidance draft October 2005 (36K)
• Proposals map (312K)
• Responses (16K)

New Frodingham

• Conservation area appraisal adoption draft October 2005 (44K)
• Supplementary planning guidance draft October 2005 (32K)
• Proposals map (372K)
• Townscape analysis (372K)
• Responses (16K)

Old Crosby

• Conservation area appraisal adoption draft October 2005 (40K)
• Supplementary planning guidance draft October 2005 (32K)
• Proposals map (524K)
• Townscape analysis (528K)
• Responses (16K)

Winterton

• Conservation area appraisal adoption draft October 2005 (64K)
• Supplementary planning guidance draft October 2005 (40K)
• Proposals map (364K)
• Townscape analysis (388K)

All the documents will be used to inform the planning process.

Once formally adopted they will be used to develop a management strategy for all 17 conservation areas. This will look at how the council’s conservation areas can be managed better.

A key proposal in the consultation was to improve conservation area management. One way of doing this would be to control some minor works in these areas. The consultation demonstrated that there is general support for this. The council will bring forward proposals for to what are called Article 4 (2) Directions. These aim to better control works that currently do not need planning permission.

The aims of the conservation area consultations were to:

• Improve everyone’s understanding of them
• Get more people involved in decisions that affect these important areas

From the correspondence received and from talking to people about them conservation at various public open days, we think we have achieved these aims. For example, it has confirmed that in North Lincolnshire, as with elsewhere in the country, people place a high value on their history and feel we should preserve more as a nation.

The process has also confirmed that because people care about their environment they want to be involved in decisions affecting it.

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