First Draft Local List Supplementary Planning Document

Comment

Representation ID: 25

Received: 10/06/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sylvia Chaplin

An effective Heritage Statement in planning applications is essential. the wording in this section is strongly supported.

Comment

Representation ID: 26

Received: 10/06/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sylvia Chaplin

The wording needs strengthening here. The current trend to replace hedges and traditional post-and-rail split-paling fences with close-boarded fencing is often completed without reference to the LPA, even in conservation areas. Where the boundary treatment is considered integral to the appreciation of the significance of the heritage asset, Article 4 Directions should be applied and enforced. ‘Walls, fences and railings are often crucial to a building's character. In such cases the listing will specify the need to seek permission from the LPA for alterations to the boundary features’.

Comment

Representation ID: 27

Received: 10/06/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sylvia Chaplin

9.2 Contemporary buildings are mentioned under Residential. Contemporary buildings applauded today can become candidates for demolition in the eyes of a later generation: the Brutalist Movement is a case in point. Would it be wise to state that for a contemporary building to be a candidate for listing it needs to have been in place for 10 or 15 years? That would offer a longer view to be taken of its significance and worth.

Comment

Representation ID: 28

Received: 10/06/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sylvia Chaplin

10. It should be made clear somewhere in this section that, for example having a blue plaque on a building does not qualify it automatically for local listing. All the relevant principal and secondary criteria will be applied in the selection process.