PLANNING COMMITTEE AGENDA - Hartlepool Borough Council

Planning Committee – 18 July 2012 4.1
effects on amenity, highway safety, car parking, infrastructure, flood risk, trees,
landscape features, wildlife and habitats, the historic environment, and the need for
high standards of design and landscaping and native species.
Hsg10: Sets out the criteria for the approval of alterations and extensions to
residential properties and states that proposals not in accordance with guidelines will
not be approved.
HE1: States that development will only be approved where it can be demonstrated
that the development will preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the
Conservation Area and does not adversely affect amenity. Matters taken into
account include the details of the development in relation to the character of the
area, the retention of landscape and building features and the design of car parking
provision. Full details should be submitted and regard had to adopted guidelines
and village design statements as appropriate.
HE8: States that traditional materials and sympathetic designs should be used in
works to listed buildings and to adjoining or nearby properties affecting the setting of
the building. These should be in keeping with the character and special interest of
the building. Those internal features and fittings comprising an integral part of the
character of the building should be retained where practical. Alterations to part of a
listed building will only be approved where the main part of the building is preserved
or enhanced and no significant features of interest are lost.
Planning Considerations
4.7 The main planning considerations in this instance are the appropriateness of the
proposals in relation to the relevant Hartlepool Local Plan (2006) policies and the
relevant material considerations including the effect of the proposal on the character
and setting of the listed building.
4.8 Policy HE1 states that development will only be approved where it can be
demonstrated that the development will preserve or enhance the character or
appearance of the Conservation Area. Policy HE8 states that traditional materials
and sympathetic designs should be used in works to listed buildings.
4.9 Relevant national planning policy in this instance can be found in the National
Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The document states that the, “purpose of the
planning system is to contribute to the achievements of sustainable development.”.
To this regard one of the three dimensions to sustainable development is noted to
be, “an environmental role – contributing to protecting and enhancing our natural,
built and historic environment”
4.10 Further to this, paragraph 9 states that “Pursuing sustainable development
involves seeking positive improvement in the quality of the built…and historic
environment…including replacing poor design with better design”.
4.11 Paragraph 17 of the NPPF sets out the core planning principles, one of which is
to, “conserve heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance, so that
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