First Draft Local List Supplementary Planning Document

Dear Sirs
Here is my comment on the SPD Consultation. The proposed process seems to put the onus on the proposer to provide evidence that a building is an NDHA and therefore should go on the Local List. But there are many examples where CEC Built Heritage have already defined buildings as NDHA in response to Planning Applications or Appeals. I give an example below. In such cases I suggest they are automatically added to the Local List? It would seem unnecessarily beauractratic to find Built Heritage's own decision and evidence on the CE Planning Portal and then present it back to them to prove what they have already decided?
Kind Regards
Ken Morris
Goostrey Parish Council
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As an example, I attach a document that CEC Built Heritage wrote in response to Planning Application 23/3015C for the Red Lion in Goostrey in which CEC Built Heritage have written the following: "In addition, it appears on the Cheshire Tithe Map and as such can be considered as a non-designated heritage asset (NDHA) as defined in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The local Parish Council agree that it is an NDHA". It appears in the Goostrey Neighbourhood Plan as an NDHA. The Applicant's own expert Heritage Statement accepts that it is an NDHA (also attached). The subsequent refusal of the Planning Application was upheld by the inspector in Appeal Number 3344957 (also attached) in which the Inspector writes in para 6 :

6. "The main parties do not dispute that the appeal building should be considered a NDHA. From the evidence before me and my site observations, I have no reason to reach an alternative view. I find the significance of this NDHA, insofar as this appeal is concerned, to derive from its age, character, setting and historic relationship with the nearby Grade II* Listed St Luke’s Church and Grade II Listed Church Cottages which are within the oldest part of the village."

My question is : Given that the Applicant's Heritage expert, and CEC Built Heritage and the Parish Council and the Planning Inspector have all agreed that the Red Lion (now Space Invader) is an NDHA - can it be automatically added to the Local List, without going through the whole assessment process again? There are a number of others very similar in Goostrey.

Many Thanks
Regards
Cllr Ken Morris
Goostrey Parish Council