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Representation ID: 3163

Received: 01/03/2023

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Although there are no designated heritage assets on site, the site lies immediately adjacent to the grade II listed Pine Tree Cottage. Development of this site has the potential to impact upon the significance of this designated heritage asset through development within its setting.
We welcome the preparation of an HIA for the site.
Whilst we welcome the recommendation of the HIA to provide an area if open space to preserve views of the building and create a degree of separation, we note that this area is also now being proposed as an area of informal car parking.
We have some concerns as to whether an area of open space to protect the setting of the listed building is compatible with the land also being used as a car park. We suggest that consideration should be given to locating the car park in another area of the site, or even off -site – for example it might be more appropriate to locate the car park on the same side of the road as the school to reduce the number of children crossing the road.
If you are going to pursue the car park option on-site, we suggest the addition of wording to criterion 2 to read, Consideration should be given to the design of the car park to ensure that the grade II listed Pine Tree Cottage including its setting is conserved and enhanced.
Criterion 1 of the policy suggests that there should be frontage development and yet the HIA was specific about the need to set development back from the frontage. We suggest you review the wording of criterion 1 accordingly.
We welcome criterion 3 and 5 of the policy.
Bullet point 4 states that the HER should be consulted to determine the need for any archaeological surveys prior to development. However, this is different to the recommendation in the HIA which states that ‘This site would need to be investigated prior to development’. In our view, some assessment is needed to inform any planning application.
We therefore advise that bullet point 4 should be amended to read, ‘Planning applications should be supported by archaeological assessment including the results of field evaluation where appropriate.’