HIGHGATE NEW TOWN PHASE 1, CAMDEN Community-led Conservation Guidance for inclusion in the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area and Application for Grade II* Listing

2.4 Workshops and Consultation
2.4.1 The main programme of workshops was carried out between March and November 2019. This was
preceded by three initial meetings between residents and Tom Davies to determine the scope of the
project. The workshops were supplemented by prior preparation and research (including the earlier
consultations) as well as ongoing liaison with the working group throughout the project period, and
evening walkabouts to talk to residents.
2.4.2 The workshops were held on,
June 6 th 2019- evening session on community and use, conservation guidance and scope for
listing (3 hours) attended by 11 individuals, variously members of the WERA, short and long-term
residents and former tenants. This working group has been approved by the WERA to represent
both represent residents across the estate and will report back through the WERA to the community.
August 6 th 2019- Group interview with three long-term residents to fill out the community’s timeline
at Highgate New Town Phase 1.
November 25 th 2019- Draft Presentation and discussion workshop (Autumn 2019)
February 15 th – 30 th 2020 – Public review for HNT residents and neighbours
2.4.3 Architectural Historian Professor Mark Swenarton the author of Cook’s Camden: the making of
Modern Housing (Swenarton 2017) was engaged on the project in August 2019 and provided review
and support on the historical baseline sections from thereon.
2.5 Sources
2.5.1 A range of sources were used to assess HNT’s significance and potential in line with best practice
guidance as outlined by Historic England and relevant legislation and guidance as well as current
best practice examples of Conservation Management. The conservation guidance policies have
been developed using current guidance from Historic England and other sources (HE 2019).
2.6 Assessment Criteria
2.6.1 Assessment of significance seeks to identify how particular parts of a site and different periods in
its evolution contribute to, or detract from, identified heritage values associated with the site. This
considers the present character of the site based on the chronological sequence of events that
produced it, and allows management strategies to be developed that sustain and enhance the
significance of heritage assets.
2.6.2 Significance (for heritage policy) is defined in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
Annex 2 as:
‘the value of a heritage asset to this and future generations because of its heritage interest. That
interest may be archaeological, architectural, artistic or historic. Significance derives not only from a
heritage asset’s physical presence, but also from its setting.’
2.6.3 Current national guidance for the assessment of the significance of heritage assets is provided
by Historic England in the document Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance for the
Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment (HE 2008) in which significance is weighed by
consideration of the potential for the asset to demonstrate the following value criteria:
Evidential value. Deriving from the potential of a place to yield evidence about past human activity.
Historical value. Deriving from the ways in which past people, events and aspects of life can be
connected through a place to the present. It tends to be illustrative or associative.
Aesthetic value. Deriving from the ways in which people draw sensory and intellectual stimulation
from a place.
Communal value. Deriving from the meanings of a place for the people who relate to it, or for whom
it figures in their collective experience or memory. Communal values are closely bound up with
historical (particularly associative) and aesthetic values, but tend to have additional and specific
aspects.
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