Decision details

Proposed Adoption of the Port Sunlight Village Conservation Management Plan 2007

Decision Maker: Cabinet, Planning Committee

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decisions:

A report by the Interim Director of Corporate Services that had been considered by the Planning Committee at its meeting on 31 March 2011 informed that the Council had a statutory duty to protect and enhance the character of the conservation areas and to preserve its listed buildings in accordance with national guidance.  In order to meet these obligations the first step had been to understand those character areas and significant buildings.  To this end the Government had introduced the concept of conservation area appraisals and management plans, and had undertaken these in several designated areas in recent years.

 

Port Sunlight Village Trust had commissioned Byrom Clark Roberts to undertake an appraisal and management plan for the buildings of the village, with Bureau Veritas completing the corresponding volume for the landscape component.  The volumes were accompanied by Survey Notes and a Condition Database.

 

There had been input from various bodies, including the local authority and the Port Sunlight Residents’ and Conservation Society.  Both reports had been completed in 2007, and the local authority considered it appropriate that they be formally adopted as Council policy and guidance too.  The Council had not been able to adopt the documents at the time due to a large volume of development related work that had been underway at the time.

 

The Planning Committee had resolved

 

(1)   That the Planning Committee agree that the document be adopted as material guidance in planning and conservation matters; and

 

(2)   That the report be referred to Cabinet for approval.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the decision of the Planning Committee set out above be endorsed.

Publication date: 06/06/2011

Date of decision: 02/06/2011

Decided at meeting: 02/06/2011 - Cabinet

Effective from: 14/06/2011

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