Issue - meetings

To update Cabinet on the progress of updating the District’s Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plans and preparing a Local List of non-designated heritage assets.

To seek agreement from Cabinet that the final versions of seven Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Plans be adopted by the Council.

To seek agreement from the Cabinet that the final version of the Local List Criteria also be adopted by the Council.

RESOLVED that Cabinet –

(a)   agrees to the formal adoption, by the Council, of the final Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan for the following areas (found at Appendices A to G):

•    Brightlingsea,

•    Lower Dovercourt,

•    Frinton and Walton,

•    Great Bentley,

•    Harwich,

•    Thorpe-Le-Soken, and

•    Thorpe-Le-Soken Station and Maltings.

(b)   agrees to the formal adoption, by the Council, of the Local List Criteria (found at Appendix H to the Portfolio Holder’s report (A.7); and

(c)   authorises the Director (Planning), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Planning, to commence public consultation for the ‘Call for Heritage Sites’ for a period of no less than six months.

Earlier on in the meeting as detailed under Minute 24 above, Councillor Barry had declared an interest in agenda item 15 (report A.7) insofar as the report mentioned the Brightlingsea Lido of which he was a Trustee.

Cabinet considered a report of the Housing and Planning Portfolio Holder (A.7), which:-

 •   update it on the progress of updating the District’s Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plans and preparing a Local List of non-designated heritage assets;

•    sought agreement from Cabinet that the final versions of seven Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Plans be adopted by the Council; and

•    sought agreement from the Cabinet that the final version of the Local List Criteria also be adopted by the Council.

Cabinet recalled that one of the aims of the Council’s adopted Heritage Strategy was for the Council to reassess each of the District’s twenty Conservation Area Appraisals (CAPs). Fifteen of those CAPs had now been the subject of public consultations. Seven of those Appraisals had now been amended after comments were received, and were now ready for adoption by the Council, which would enable them to be referred to as a material consideration in planning matters.

Members were reminded that a further aim of the Heritage Strategy was for the Council to prepare a list of non-designated heritage assets (also called a ‘Local List’).

Therefore, the criteria against which buildings and structures would be assessed for inclusion on the Local List had also the subject of a public consultation. The Local List criteria had been amended following consultation responses and it was now ready to be adopted by the Council. It could then be used for of a six month ‘Call for Heritage Sites’ consultation later in the year, during which time, the public would be invited to make suggestions for what should be included on the Local List.

In order to progress projects specifically identified in the Council’s Heritage Strategy:-

It was moved by Councillor Bush, seconded by Councillor M E Stephensonand:-

RESOLVED that Cabinet –

(a)   agrees to the formal adoption, by the Council, of the final Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan for the following areas (found at Appendices A to G):

•    Brightlingsea,

•    Lower Dovercourt,

•    Frinton and Walton,

•    Great Bentley,

•    Harwich,

•    Thorpe-Le-Soken, and

•    Thorpe-Le-Soken Station and Maltings.

(b)   agrees to the formal adoption, by the Council, of the Local List Criteria (found at Appendix H to the Portfolio Holder’s report (A.7); and

(c)   authorises the Director (Planning), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Planning, to commence public consultation for the ‘Call for Heritage Sites’ for a period of no less than six months.