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

3.3.3 Current guidance for Sub Area 5 of the DPCA is limited and generic, but is supported by local policy
and guidance (see 3.2.7). The provisions specific to Sub Area 5 are;
Views
In the Whittington Estate views between the blocks towards Highgate Cemetery
View westward Chester Road up to Highgate Ridge.
Negative Features
Satellite dishes
Unsympathetic shopfronts and clutter on Chester Road
Unsympathetic windows to Mission Hall
3.3.4 The conservation area appraisal is described as being,
“for the use of local residents, community groups, businesses, property owners, architects and
developers and is an aid to the formulation and design of development proposals and change in this
area and its setting” (Ibid. 4).
3.3.5 Taken together with the requirement for supplementary planning guidance under Local Plan Policy
D2, this provides precedent for residents to actively contribute to guidance by informing about their
community and use of their area as a basis for determining policy.
3.4 DPNF Neighbourhood Plan
3.4.1 The Dartmouth Park Neighbourhood Forum is currently finalising a report on engagement with
residents and the needs of the community, which included a day’s pop-up event at Highgate New
Town Phase 1 (The Whittington Estate). They managed to speak with around 20 respondents,
mostly families, given that the pop-up took place at school closing time. Residents talked about
a high sense of community acknowledging the role of car-free space in providing this, as well as
a need for social-housing provision and more shops. A high proportion of the respondents were
longer-term residents who emphasised the need for conditions that allow families to stay and grow
in the area. The report’s findings include a need to prioritise the TRA’s and RA’s of several estates
including Highgate New Town Phase 1 (the Whittington Estate) (DPNFNP 2016).
3.4.2 Further to this, Appendix 4 of the Neighbourhood Plan Consultation Draft April 2018: describes
Highgate New Town Phase 1 as,
“one of a series of ground-breaking housing estates designed by the Camden Architects’
Department under Sydney Cook in a signature house style, with linear stepped-back blocks”.
3.4.3 It concludes (without assessment of heritage significance) on grounds of “similarities to the
Alexandra Road estate in the west of the Borough, which is nationally listed at Grade II*. That
Highgate New Town should be included on the local list at a minimum.” (DPNFNP 2018: pp.123-
24)’.
3.5 Other Guidance
3.4.4 In addition to the current Historic England guidance Conservation Area Appraisal, Designation
and Management (Historic England Advice Note 1) (HE 2019), other best-practice guidance
considered includes the internationally recognised ‘Conservation Plan: A Guide to the Preparation of
Conservation Plans for Places of European Cultural Significance’ by James Semple Kerr, Heritage
Lottery Fund’s ‘Conservation Plan Guidance’ (Semple Kerr 2013 & HLF 2008).
3.4.5 Historic England Good Practice Advice (GPA) 3: The Setting of Heritage Assets, which sets out
guidance on managing change within the settings of heritage assets and is applicable to this study.
(HE 2017).
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