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Malmesbury Conservation Area Management Plan Adopted 22 February 2010 as supplementary planning guidance
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MalmesburyConservation Area Management Plan
Adopted 22 February 2010 as supplementary planning guidance
Malmsbury
Conservation Area Management Plan
Adopted 22 February 2010 as supplementary planning guidance
Contents Introduction 1 How to use this document 1. Legislation, policy and guidance 2
Legislation Policy Guidance
2. Conservation area management 3 Preservation and enhancement Monitoring change Trees, greenery and open space Consultation General proposals 6
3. Character areas management proposals Character areas - plan 8 Area 1: Market Cross and Upper High Street 9 Area 2: Lower High Street 10 Area 3: Cross Hayes 11 Area 4: Ingram Street and Silver Street 12 Area 5: The Abbey, Abbey House and Gloucester Street 13 Area 6: Oxford Street 14 Area 7: Holloway 15 Area 8: Abbey Row 16 Area 9: The Triangle 17 Area 10: Gloucester Road 18 Area 11: Horsefair 19 Area 12: Gastons Road and Burnham Road 20 Area 13: Bristol Street 21 Area 14: Burnivale 22 Area 15: Kingswall 23 Area 16: St. John’s Street 24 Area 17: River Valley (Sherston Branch) 25 Area 18: River Valley (Tetbury Branch) 26 Area 19: Old Station Yard 27 Summary of development guidelines 28 Summary of enhancement proposals 30 Appendix A - References 32 Appendix B – Potential resources 34 Appendix C - Article 4 Directions - list of properties 36
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Introduction This management plan sets out Wiltshire Council’s approach to managing the future of the Malmesbury conservation area. It is informed by the Malmesbury Conservation Area Appraisal (CAA) produced by the former North Wiltshire District Council and adopted in April 20071, and should be read in conjunction with it. The appraisal contains background information on the reasons and methods of the designation of Malmesbury conservation area and outlines the effects of designation. The appraisal also contains detailed character analysis of the Malmesbury conservation area and makes observations on positive and negative features within it. This management plan uses these observations to inform development guidelines and enhancement proposals specific to the character areas studied in the appraisal.
How to use this document This management plan contains three main sections. The first section describes how the management plan fits within the legislative and policy framework, both nationally and locally. This section also notes the guidance produced by English Heritage and other bodies that relates to producing management plans. The second section explains how the topics in section one influence and guide the nature of proposals for Malmesbury conservation area. This section also contains general recommendations and proposals for the conservation area. The third section uses the character areas identified in the appraisal to describe in detail development guidelines and enhancement proposals specific to each area.
1 http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/malmesbury_caa_april_07-3.pdf
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1. Legislation, policy and guidance Legislation The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (Section 69) requires local authorities to determine and designate ‘areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance’ as conservation areas2. Section 71 of the Act also places a duty upon Wiltshire Council, as the Local Planning Authority (LPA), to publish proposals for the preservation and enhancement of conservation areas. This management plan and the accompanying conservation area appraisal are designed to satisfy these legislative duties. The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 also directs that the LPA must pay special attention to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of conservation areas when exercising its powers under any of the other Planning Acts, and also Part 1 of the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953. This means that all applications determined under the Planning Acts should be assessed for their impact upon the conservation area. Listed buildings are those identified on the published statutory list reflecting their architectural and historic interest as grades I, II* and II. The criteria for listing is set out by English Heritage (on behalf of the Department for Culture Media and Sport), in a series of recently published selection guides for differing types and dates of buildings. Policy This Malmesbury Conservation Area Management Plan (CAMP) has been endorsed by Wiltshire Council as a material consideration for development control purposes. It was prepared following extensive community involvement and in accordance with current best practice and legislation, as set out in the English Heritage ‘Guidance On The Management Of Conservation Areas’ and Section 71 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. As such it carries considerable weight in the determination of planning applications. Guidance This management plan has been put together taking into account the latest English Heritage advice: ‘Guidance on the Management of Conservation Areas’3 and recommendations made in the ‘Guidance on Conservation Area Appraisals’4. Other guidance and legislation that informs the development guidelines and enhancement proposals contained within this management plan is set out in Appendix A.
2 Section 69 (1)(a) 3 http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Management_of_Conservation_Areas_20060320130528.pdf 4 http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Conservation_area_appraisals_20060320130154.pdf
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2. Conservation area management Preservation and enhancement The character area management proposals are split into two sections: Development guidelines contain recommendations for control of development that are specific to each character area. In some cases this may not only be a recommendation for the restriction or approval of new developments, but also guidance on matters such as advertising control or change of use of properties. These guidelines aim to protect the quality and interest of the areas as a whole, not only the buildings, and are primarily designed to inform planning decisions and applications. Enhancement proposals set out medium and long-term schemes of action that aim to make a positive impact on the quality and interest of the character area. In accordance with the most recent English Heritage guidance Appendix B contains a consideration of the resources that may be used to sustain the conservation area. The specific guidelines and proposals set out in the character area management proposals contain technical terms and reference to planning powers that may be confusing to the non-specialist. The following explanations are not definitive legal and planning definitions, but rather an overview of the main powers available to the council. Advertising
Inappropriate advertising can significantly reduce the visual amenity of conservation areas. Oversized, brightly-coloured plastic fascia boards on shop fronts; ‘A’ frame or sandwich boards reducing the width of footways and internally-illuminated shop signs, for example, can have a negative effect on the special character of a conservation area. A balance has to be struck, therefore, between preserving and enhancing the character of conservation areas and allowing retailers to use advertising in a competitive commercial environment. The council is the Highway Authority (HA) and has certain statutory powers that can be used to maintain or enforce this balance:
• ‘A’ boards – this type of advertising can detract from the street scene as well as restricting the usable width of a footway. As the HA, the council can remove signs of this type.
• Areas of special control of advertising - this enables the council to impose more restrictive controls on advertising to preserve the character of the conservation area.
• Discontinuance notice - The council as planning authority may serve this notice in order to remove an advertisement that is injuring the amenity of the area or is a danger to the public
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Section 215 – Removal of eyesores
• What is a Section 215? Section 215 (s215) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (the Act) provides a Local Planning Authority with the power, in certain circumstances, to take steps requiring land to be cleaned up when its condition adversely affects the amenity of the area. If it appears that the amenity of part of its land is being adversely affected by the condition of neighbouring land and buildings, it may serve a notice on the owner requiring that the situation be remedied. These notices set out the steps that need to be taken, and the time within which they must be carried out. LPAs also have powers under s219 to undertake the clean-up works themselves and to recover the costs from the landowner.
• What is the definition of land? In Section 336 (s336) of the Act it states that land includes buildings and not just vacant, undeveloped land. The dereliction of both can lead to a detrimental visual affect on the surrounding land and buildings and can have a negative effect on both the setting of conservation areas and historic buildings, which they typically contain. The character of a conservation area, having been identified as special and worthy of designation, can be seriously affected by unsightly derelict land and therefore s215 is an effective and straightforward legal mechanism for LPAs to use against such elements when they arise.
• Can a Section 215 be used with other legal powers? It can be used with other legal powers such as urgent works and repairs notice regarding listed buildings, for instance, and dangerous structure notices. (Town and Country Planning Act 1990: Section 215, Best Practice Guidance, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister5)
Article 4 Directions – controls on permitted development
• What is an Article 4 Direction? An Article 4 Direction removes certain permitted development rights; this means that you may have to apply for planning permission to carry out certain minor alterations to your house.
• What are permitted development rights? You can normally make minor alterations to your house without applying for planning permission, these changes are known as 'permitted development'.
• Why do we need Article 4 Directions? Article 4 Directions are usually applied to properties in conservation areas. A conservation area is an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character and appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance. Article 4 Directions give the council the ability to control certain types of development and alterations to properties in these special areas.
Permitted development can have a harmful effect on the character of conservation areas, for instance by the replacement of traditional timber windows with modern uPVC windows, or the painting of the front of buildings which have traditionally been left unpainted. The council has decided to apply Article 4 Directions to properties in areas that it believes would benefit from the enhanced protection the direction brings. 5 http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/319798.pdf
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From time to time the council may decide to apply new Article 4 Directions to areas in the district. You will be notified if your property is included in a new designation and given ample time to respond should you disagree with our decision. A list of properties where Article 4 Directions are in force is given in Appendix C page 42 Monitoring change Change is a dynamic process and the causes of change are diverse. Development is usually an obvious and immediate indicator of change, but other factors can be more subtle and slow to emerge. Weathering, losses of detail due to accident and decay, as well as man-made changes such as works by the HA and utilities companies can all have an incremental but profound effect on the appearance of a conservation area. Small changes to individual buildings, such as replacement windows or doors, may have a relatively small initial effect, but, again, the cumulative impact may be profound. A circular process of monitoring, review and action can help to preserve an equilibrium within the conservation area. Street audits as advocated by English Heritage can be a useful method of monitoring and assessing the quality of streets6. Trees, greenery and open spaces The interaction between buildings and the spaces around them plays an important role in defining the character of Malmesbury. The combination of river valleys, which frame and enhance the conservation area, and public open space are afforded protection within local policies. Land to the back of buildings overlooking the river valleys should be given special attention, to preserve the contribution they make to the views into and out of the conservation area within the context of the valleys. Important areas of greenery have been identified in the appraisal and reference to this document should inform new development. Trees in conservation areas have special protection and a notification or consent is needed to fell or lop any tree above a certain size. It is advised that you seek further advice from the Wiltshire Council heritage and design section on 0300 456 0100 prior to undertaking any work involving trees within the conservation area. Consultation As set out in the Malmesbury Conservation Area Appraisal April 2007, community involvement has been solicited throughout the preparation of the Malmesbury Conservation Area Management Plan. The Malmesbury Area Liaison Group (MALG) has, in particular, had a valuable input to this process. The group represented local organisations and interests and its members have been closely involved in the content and consultation of this document. Public consultation on this management plan has been conducted to conform with current best practice and legislation as set out in the English Heritage guidance on the management of conservation areas and Section 71 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
6 http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/How-to-street.pdf?1253804040
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General proposals for the whole conservation area A. A cycle of monitoring to be implemented with the assistance of local stakeholders and interest groups, including street audits. B. Priority to be given to the preservation and enhancement of the important ‘views and panoramas’ listed and noted on the townscape analysis plans within the Malmesbury Conservation Area Appraisal. C. In considering development proposals within Malmesbury Conservation Area, account is to be taken of the comments within each character area analysis and the features identified on each townscape analysis plan within the Malmesbury Conservation Area Appraisal.
D The Conservation Area contains a large number of buildings listed as of special architectural or historic interest and these are an important component of the town. Listed building consent is required for all work that would affect the character of a listed building, whether internal or external, and the council has a duty to ensure that all works are appropriate to the building concerned. All applications for listed building consent and associated planning applications within the Conservation Area will be assessed with full regard to their character and to their setting as defined in this Malmesbury Conservation Area Appraisal.
E The Highway Authority and Statutory Undertakers to be encouraged to repair and maintain roads and pavements to a standard appropriate to their location and their historic significance.
F Action to preserve and maintain the town wall will be taken where necessary, including seeking the removal of potentially damaging vegetation. Any action will, however, have to recognise the legal constraints of ownership and responsibility.
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G Reference in this document to ’high standards of design’ is to be taken as referring to the need to consider the context of any proposal. Further advice is given inDesigning in Context published in 2001 by English Heritage and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. In considering all design proposals the following will be taken into account: The relationship of the proposal to its site
The relationship of the proposal to its wider setting How is the density of the proposal related to that of existing and neighbouring uses? The impact in close view What materials are used? How do they relate to those of surrounding buildings? Is the architecture of a building suitable for the uses it contains? Is it trying to be too grand or pretending to be more modest than it really is? How does the architecture present itself to the viewer? What contribution, if any, does the proposal make to the public realm? If new open space is created, is it clear that it will provide a positive benefit and have a genuine use? In the wider setting, has the impact of the proposal in views and distance been considered? Does it make a positive or negative impact? Does it detract the eye from the focus of the view and, if so, does it provide something better to look at? It is true that there is a subjective element in judgements about design quality and people often disagree about what they like. Such differences of opinion and matters of taste should not be allowed to obscure the fact that it is possible to assess the quality of a design based on the objective criteria set out above.
Note The Conservation Area of Malmesbury is complex and, although this report highlights a wide range of issues, omission of items from the text or from the illustrations should not be regarded as an indication that they are unimportant in conservation or planning terms.
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3. Character area management proposals
Extract from Malmesbury Conservation Area Appraisal character area plan
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Area 1: Market Cross and Upper High Street This area is the historic retail and commercial centre of the town at the junction of three roads by the 15th Century Market Cross, a major focal point of Malmesbury.
Development guidelines 1. Change of use from retail to residential in the High Street should be resisted where this would harm the viability and vitality of the area. 2. Insist on a high standard of design and suitability to context for applications for new shop-fronts, particularly in cases where national chains seek to impose their corporate identities on outlets irrespective of location. 3. Assess need for enforcement action on the unauthorised use of ‘A’ frame advertising boards. 4. Protect small historic architectural features, by the use of Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 5. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 6. Consider special advertising controls.
Enhancement proposals 1. Remove redundant lighting column outside No 21. 2. Repair footway outside Co-operative store. 3. Audit and rationalise traffic signage. 4. Encourage improvement of the shop front of Co-operative store, and Lloyds the Chemist at number 28. 5. Encourage repair of the frontage of Nos 9-11 High Street and 2 Market Cross. 6. Encourage re-design of the shop fascia at No 19 (currently Cancer Research). 7. Consider enhancement scheme to control traffic manoeuvres and parking around the Market Cross.
Fig 1: Visual clutter at the top of the High Street.
Fig 2: Corporate signage on a charity shop in the heart of the conservation area
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Area 2: Lower High Street Historically this area was an important gateway into the town and is still the main approach from the south, a mix of diverse residential and some small commercial buildings.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure high-quality and sympathetic design for new or replacement shopfronts and signage. 2. Protect existing period architectural features by the use of Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 3. Ensure good design for replacement of new windows and doors. 4. Change of use from retail to residential in the High Street should be resisted where this would harm the viability and vitality of the area. 5. Retain parking provision. 6. Consider special advertising controls.
Enhancement proposals 1. Make good footway and consider footway vehicle deterrent methods. 2. Encourage the repair and repainting of woodwork at the Rose and Crown (no.102). 3. Carry out street scene audit, considering lighting columns in particular. 4. Encourage replacement of upvc door and windows at no.141 and door at no.96.
Fig 3: Lower High Street with modern lighting column
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Area 3: Cross Hayes This is the main open space in the town centre, historically the livestock market place and now the main parking place in the town.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure new development and alterations to the streetscape maintain and enhance the active and diverse town square character. 2. Protect small historic features like the redundant rings used to connect market hurdles at No 12 Cross Hayes Lane and mounting block on the corner of Market Lane by the use of Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 3. Consider special advertising controls. 4. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors.
Enhancement proposals 1. Consider hard and soft landscaping enhancement to Cross Hayes, including materials, parking layout, definition of the space, seating, street clutter and foliage, especially the use of trees to separate the open space from the through route. 2. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires. 3. Encourage improvement of the appearance of buildings in Griffin Alley. 4. Encourage renovation of Nos 46-48 St Dennis Lane.
Fig 4: The view to the tower of Tower House from Cross Hayes is degraded by the unsightly overhead wires and signage
Fig 5: General view of Cross Hayes showing the visual intrusion of car parking
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Area 4: Ingram Street and Silver Street These are both attractive town streets full of character and interest epitomising the compact nature of the town centre with their small dwellings, many lacking gardens and yards in an area where space is at a premium. The Back Lane steps descending to St John's Street are also an attractive feature.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 2. Consider carefully the impact of traffic on the buildings and character of the area likely to result from any new development. 3. Consider special advertising controls.
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires.
Fig 6: The small triangle that marks the start up to Silver Street is spoilt by overhead wires and poles
Fig. 7: The view at the bottom of Silver Street is blocked by these utilitarian garages
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Area 5: The Abbey, Abbey House and Gloucester Street This area dominates the town and is the main reason for the town's existence, being the former castle site and the remains of the 12th Century Abbey, a major attraction for visitors and residents alike.
Development guidelines 1. Change of use from retail to residential should be resisted where this would harm the viability and vitality of the area. 2. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 3. Ensure the design of development, including rear extensions to existing properties, respects and preserves the quality of existing views of and from the river valleys. 4. Retain existing open space and vegetation. 5. Consider special advertising controls.
Enhancement proposals 1. Assess diversion underground of overhead wires. 2. Improve street furniture, particularly lamp standards. 3. Maintain the area behind Cloister Gardens, alongside Abbey Steps. 4. Implement street scene audits with respect to street clutter, in particular the 'A' boards around the Market Cross. 5. Remove and replace the town map and signage posts at the bottom of Mill Lane.
Fig 8: Recent in-fill in the heart of the Conservation Area close to the Abbey
Fig 9: The special atmosphere of the area close to the Abbey as seen from Mill Lane
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Area 6: Oxford Street This is the former coaching road leading from the town centre to Holloway, the north-east gateway of the town, a dog-legged street with a number of characterful houses and properties.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure high-quality and sympathetic design of new or replacement shop signs. 2. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 3. Protect existing railings. 4. Protect existing green space. 5. Change of use from retail to residential should be resisted where this would harm the viability and vitality of the area. 6. Ensure that any redevelopment of the Town Hall site incorporates high design quality to improve the Oxford Street frontage. 7. Consider special advertising controls.
Enhancement proposals 1. Seek the repair and reuse of The Manse and Moravian Chapel. 2. Encourage the replacement of the shop-front at No 6. 3. Encourage the restoration of the ancillary buildings that are part of the Manor House.
Fig 10: Shop fronts on the former Manor House in Oxford Street
Fig 11: The Old Manse with the former Moravian chapel attached
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Area 7: Holloway This road leading downhill to the River Avon is the site of the former East Gate; much of the road is at a lower level than its surroundings, hence its name. This is a relic landscape feature with historic significance.
Development guidelines 1. Prevent loss of trees and planting in Abbot’s Gardens and along the roadside. 2. Ensure that any new development integrates sympathetically into the area through appropriate design and use of local materials. 3. Prevent harm to the open character and views of, and from, the river valley. 4. Protect the old pumphouse entrance adjacent to the small public garden. 5. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors.
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires. 2. Consider improvements to the highway at East Gate. 3. Audit street scene, in particular lighting. 4. Replace plastic yellow grit box with more suitable alternative. 5. Encourage repairs to the old smithy. 6. Encourage replanting of trees on the skyline above the Spice Merchant restaurant. 7. Audit parking to the east of Bastion.
Fig 12: The Smithy
Fig 13: The bare skyline beyond the ’Spice Merchant’ restaurant
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Area 8: Abbey Row This road set high above the river links the historic centre of the town with Westport, once a self contained and separate conurbation and now a secondary retail and primary residential area of the town.
Development guidelines 1. Change of use from retail to residential should be resisted where this would harm the viability and vitality of the area. 2. Any alterations permitted at the back of properties south of Abbey Row should not compromise the beauty of the setting on the edge of the river valley. 3. Prevent the loss of open spaces and gardens where such loss would neither preserve nor enhance the conservation area. 4. Resist development proposals which would increase existing traffic levels such that the special character of the conservation area would be adversely affected. 5. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 6. Ensure high-quality and sympathetic design for new and replacement shop fronts and signage. 7. Protect features such as stone walls and railings where these make a positive contribution to the conservation area. Consider use of Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 8. Consider special advertising controls.
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires, in particular large pole and associated overhead wires north of Jubilee Gardens. 2. Replace inappropriate concrete pavers with paving that harmonises better with the existing attractive stone plinths and railings. 3. Encourage improvement of the shop fronts at Nos 37 and 41 Abbey Row. 4. Replace unsightly lamp column on Mill Lane. 5. Replace existing double yellow lines with narrower, paler versions permitted in Conservation Areas. 6. Upgrade street furniture. 7. Encourage repair/replacement of inappropriate and damaged windows, for example the dormer of No 37.
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Area 9: The Triangle This is one of the historic market areas of Westport, now containing the town’s War Memorial, the whole area now being a traffic feature and small car park.
Development guidelines 1. Change of use from retail to residential should be resisted where this would harm the vitality and viability of the area. 2. Retain the open space in front of St Mary’s Hall. 3. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 4. Ensure high-quality and sympathetic design of new or replacement shop signs 5. Consider special advertising controls. 6. Protect traditional building features and characteristics. Consider use of Article 4 directions if appropriate.
Enhancement proposals 1. Carry out street scene audit and enhancements, in particular surfacing, signage, lighting design and street furniture (for example the plastic litter bin at the Triangle should be replaced). 2. Encourage the refurbishment of No 2 Bristol Street. 3. Support measures that would reduce traffic flow. 4. Replace modern bollards around the War Memorial with measures more in keeping with the character of the area.
Fig 15: Intrusive signage and plastic litter bin in a historic area
Fig 16: The Triangle with the prominent War Memorial, now vulnerable to modern road traffic
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Area 10: Gloucester Road This is a long hill lined with mainly residential buildings leading away from The Triangle down to Stains Bridge and the northern entrance to the town.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 2. Prevent loss of stone walls and railings that form property boundaries, as these contribute significantly to the character of the area. Consider Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 3. Consider listing of additional significant properties like 81-87 Gloucester Street and Westport Granary.
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires as part of an on-going programme of work by the electricity supply company. 2. Carry out street scene audit with particular attention to lighting columns. 3. Consider a comprehensive highway improvement scheme to repair damaged pavements and carriageway, including narrower yellow lines. 4. Encourage renovation of No 96 Gloucester Road.
Fig 17: Stainsbridge House, one of the distinctive buildings that give Gloucester Road its character
Fig 18: The long front elevation of Westport House
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Area 11: Horsefair Another open space in the town, this is surrounded by houses and cottages, and was formerly a market place in the 17th Century, but is now a secondary car park.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure high-quality design of new and replacement windows and doors. 2. Prevent loss of garage provision in Horsefair and on the corner of Katifer Lane and West Street. 3. Prevent loss of any traditional stone roofing, and encourage replacement of modern roofing with local stone tiles where appropriate. 4. Protect against the piecemeal loss of minor features particularly in West Street. Consider using Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 5. Consider listing of additional significant properties.
Enhancement proposals 1. Consider tree planting as identified in the appraisal. 2. Encourage replacement of half-glazed door of No 30 Horsefair with a solid door. 3. Encourage sympathetic renovation of garages in Horsefair and on the corner of Katifer Lane and West Street.
Fig 19: The Horsefair is spoilt by parking and by unsightly poles
Fig 20: The visual impact of car parking in this historic area
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Area 12: Gastons Road and Burnham Road This area is newer than much of the town centre, but is also of value and character, being mainly built up in the 19th Century as a residential area; there are some recent additions.
Development guidelines 1. Prevent loss of stone walls and railings that form property boundaries along Gastons Road and Burnham Road as these contribute significantly to the character of the area. 2. Consider listing of the National School. 3. Consider Article 4 Directions to No 5 Burnham Road, if appropriate. 4. Prevent loss of car parking to the rear of 1-5 Burnham Road. 5. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors.
Enhancement proposals 1. Reinstate features noted on the listing of 2-12 Gastons Road. 2. Replace the handrail outside 18-26 Burnham Road. 3. Encourage uniformity of the colour and style of the windows of 18-26 Burnham Road. 4. Encourage replacement of garages to rear of 25-47 Gastons Road with designs more in keeping with the area. 5. Encourage improvements and better screening of industrial units in Gastons Road. 6. Replace paving slabs along Gastons Road with small blocks. 7. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires.
. Fig 21: Garages adjacent to Gastons Road
Fig 22: Cracked pavement in Gastons Road
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Area 13: Bristol Street Bristol Street is an ancient route to the west of the triangle, dating back to at least the Saxon period and containing many smaller houses of quality and character.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 2. Review Listing of buildings in the area. 3. Consider Article 4 directions if appropriate to prevent further erosion of character.
Enhancement proposals 1. Consider the area at the junction of Harpers Lane and Bristol Street for an enhancement project. 2. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires. 3. Replace paving slabs along Bristol Street, taking into account the need to cope with the over-run by heavy vehicles.
Fig 23: View west along Bristol Street showing overhead wires and poles disrupting the street scene
Fig 24: The junction of Harpers Lane and Bristol Street would benefit from enhancement
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Area 14: Burnivale An old routeway running at a lower level but parallel to Abbey Row with a number of notable buildings and the site of past commercial and industrial activity.
Development guidelines 1. The design, form and scale of development, including extensions to existing properties along Abbey Row, will need careful consideration, especially concerning their rear elevations and in view of their location on the edge of the river valley. Applications which would harm views of town or valley or do not respect the setting should be strongly resisted. 2. Prevent loss or change of use of the garage block, as this parking facility helps reduce the clutter of parked cars. 3. Prevent loss of stone walls as these contribute significantly to the character of the area. 4. Prevent the loss of the allotments in Harpers Lane and Burnivale as these are a valuable green space and resource for informal recreation for the local community. 5. Enforce parking restrictions. 6. Consider listing of Nos 57/59 Burnivale and 31-55 Burnivale 7 Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors.
Enhancement proposals 1. Betty Geysers steps would benefit from enhancement, paying particular attention to concrete repairs, street lighting and wire mesh. 2. Encourage repair of render of 10/14 Bristol Street and 29 Burnivale. 3. Encourage repairs and tidying of land adjacent to 29 Burnivale. 4. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires. 5. Replace grit box at top of Burnivale with a type more suitable to the Conservation Area. 6. Improve appearance and parking provision at junction of Harpers Lane and Bristol St.
Fig 25: The start of Burnivale from the junction of Bristol Street affords distance views to St Paul’s Bell Tower, but overhead wires and modern street lights detract from the quality of the view
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Area 15: King’s Wall King’s Wall is a narrow route and residential area of some quality following the line of the historic town walls and linking with Burnivale as an ancient by-pass to the High Street and town centre.
Development guidelines 1. Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors. 2. Prevent loss of stone walls as these make a significant contribution to the character of the area, consider Article 4 Directions if appropriate. 3. Resist development proposals that would increase existing traffic levels to the extent that the special character of the conservation area would be adversely affected.
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires. 2. Repaint or replace the handrail above the Maltings and along the wall stet. 3. Carry out a street scene audit, in particular the disused bench base. 4. Encourage improvement of the rear extension of No 48 King’s Wall. 5. Encourage improvement of garages built into the side of Kings Wall. 6. Encourage improvement of the garden and parking bay to the rear of the King’s Arms.
Fig 26: The narrow roadway - a characteristic of the King’s Wall
Fig 27: Modern garages, car spaces, cables and poles all intrude into the historic ambience of the area
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Area 16: St John’s Street This is an interesting and historic street running at right angles away from the bottom of the High Street, with many compact houses and dwellings leading to Goose Bridge at its eastern end.
Development guidelines 1. Encourage off-street parking provision where this would preserve or enhance the conservation area. 2, Ensure good design of new and replacement windows and doors.
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage underground diversion of overhead wires. 2. Carry out a street scene audit, paying particular attention to parking restriction markings.3. Encourage improvement of garages at the foot of Back Hill.
Fig 28: Parked cars in St John’s Street that detract from the appearance of the area
Fig 29: The special character of St John’s Street epitomised by the compact groupings of the smaller buildings
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Area 17: River Valley (Sherston Branch) This riverside area acts as an open green boundary and natural defence to the town, the rivers historically fulfilling this role and later providing a means of communication beyond Malmesbury, as well as power for the town mills.
Development guidelines 1. Resist further development of the caravan park outside of the settlement framework boundary of Burton Hill, if this would harm the visual amenity of either the river valley or Malmesbury Conservation Area. 2. Insist on high design quality for any development permitted, especially affecting rear elevations, from Abbey Row to the High Street, in order to preserve the views from and of the river valley. 3. Prevent loss of the green space and valued local resource of the allotments in Harpers Lane. 4. Strongly resist development of gardens and open spaces along the northern side of the river from Truckle Bridge to the Town Bridge, where this would not preserve or enhance the Conservation Area or where it would harm the visual amenity of the river valley. 5. Resist development of The Water Meadows between Burton Hill and Malmesbury. 6. Resist further development in this visually important open green space.
Enhancement proposals
1. Encourage the progressive replacement of the row of poplars along the river edge in St Aldhelm’s Mead as they die off. 2. Consider environmental improvements in and around Cuckingstool Mead, perhaps by creating a riverside path and also by considering the installation of a footbridge across the river, subject to consultation with the Environment Agency.
Fig 30: The Maltings development on the former Linolite factory site
Fig 31: View of the historic heart of the town from across the river meadow
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Area 18: River Valley (Tetbury Branch) Area 18 is part of the horseshoe-shaped river system that almost surrounds the town and is now an important public open space and amenity from the Town Bridge to the Old Station Yard.
Development guidelines 1. Limit further development at the Spice Merchant (former Duke of York) site, if this would harm the visual amenity of the Conservation Area or the river valley. 2. Resist further development of the barn on the bypass north of the river where this would harm the visual amenity of the Conservation Area or the river valley. 3. Strongly resist development of the Bowling Green if this would harm the visual amenity of the Conservation Area. 4. Consider land to the south of Avon Mills as a possible additional car park for Malmesbury, to relieve the congestion in the main body of the Conservation Area which, at present, seriously detracts from its character. Any permission granted should however insist on very high standards of landscaping and screening to reduce the impact on the river valley and views of the town. 5. Resist development of the river valley to the east of the by-pass, where this would harm the visual amenity of the Conservation Area or the river valley. 6. Protect a minimum twenty metre corridor alongside the river in accordance with Environment Agency recommendations
Enhancement proposals 1. Encourage re-establishment of trees on the embankment to the north of the Spice Merchant using native species appropriate to this area
Fig 32: The Avon in flood at St John’s Bridge by Avon Mills. The bridge is an important feature, being one of the main approaches to the town
Fig 33: St Leonard's, once the main entrance to the town from the north and east
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Area 19: Old Station Yard Once the site of the railway passenger station and goods depot, this large open riverside area is now the site of light industrial development and a large car park, but no longer the idyllic scene that JWM Turner painted in 1826.
Development guidelines 1. Resist further development in the river valley, if this would harm the visual amenity of the valley and the Conservation Area. 2. Ensure that any future development of the Fire and Ambulance Stations fulfils its potential as an opportunity to preserve and enhance the character and interest of the Conservation Area on this important site. 3. In any future development of the Old Railway Yard, elements of the railway heritage of the town should be incorporated; consider listing of the Engine Shed. 4. Resist development on land in Mundens Close, a valuable asset provided by this open space which enhances the area. 5. Resist change of use of employment land to maintain Conservation Area character.
Enhancement proposals 1. Extend the railings to the north of Abbey Bridge. 2. Encourage repair of the semi-derelict barn at the edge of the Abbey Bridge and the tidying/improvement of the surrounding are. 3. Improve the approach to Abbey Mill Bridge. 4. Encourage the replacement of wooden fences along Brooky Lane with stone walls using local materials. 5. Encourage sensitive cleaning of the millrace regularly taking care to protect wildlife. 6. Improve and maintain street furniture. 7. Encourage screening of modern houses along the riverside north of Stainsbridge Mill.
Fig 33: View north showing the railway heritage; the old engine shed and a fir tree planted by the GWR company
Fig 34: The poor quality approach to the Abbey bridge steps from the old station yard car park
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Preserve views of and from the river valley and resist development that would harm this H H H H H H
Retain valuable existing open space and landscape features * * H H * * *
Consider spot listing of potentially eligible buildings (eg 81-87 Gloucester Street, Westport Granary, the National School, Engine Shed)
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Prevent loss of historic and architectural features both on buildings and elsewhere (eg the mounting block on corner of Market Lane, railings in Oxford Street, stone walls in Abbey Row, Gloucester Road, Burnivale and King's Wall and stone roofs anywhere in the town). Consider use of Article 4 Directions if appropriate.
Integrate any new development sympathetically through appropriate design and use of local materials *
Seek to retain original windows and where necessary control design and materials of new and replacement fenestration and doors
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Take enforcement action over unauthorised advertisements *
Pursue designation of area as one of Special Advertising Control under Regulation 7 and produce a guidance leaflet H H H H H * * *
Carefully consider the impact of traffic on the character of the Conservation Area arising from any proposed new development
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Retain parking/garage provision, and/or improve parking management and enforcement * * H H H
Consider land to the south of Avon Mills as possible car park for Malmesbury *
Minimise pavement clutter *
Ensure that any redevelopment of the Town Hall site incorporates high design quality *
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Prevent loss of trees and planting in Abbot's Gardens and along the roadside *
Prevent the loss of the Old Pump House entrance adjacent to the public garden *
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Pursue planting and replanting of trees and vegetation (eg area behind Cloister Gardens and alongside Abbey Steps, trees on skyline at The Spice Merchant, Poplars along riverside in St Aldhelm's Mead screening modern houses north of Stainsbridge Mill)
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Replace handrail outside 18-26 Burnham Road *
Repaint or replace handrail above The Maltings and along King's Wall *
Clean the Millrace on a regular basis *
Consider highway improvements including removal/ rationalisating of traffic signs, narrowing of yellow lines, traffic control and traffic reduction measures
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Improve quality and appearance of street lighting, including removal of redundant lamp posts (eg outside No. 21 High Street and on Mill Lane)
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Improve and repair paving (eg outside Co-op, in Abbey Row, Gastons Row and Bristol Street) and where possible incorporate measures to prevent parking on pavements
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Replace yellow grit boxes with design more appropriate to the character of the area * *
Encourage removal of plastic sign at Cancer Research Shop (No. 19) *
Encourage improvement of shopfronts (eg Co-op, Nos. 37 and 41 Abbey Row) H H
Encourage replacement of the shopfront at No. 6 Oxford Street with a design more sympathetic to the area H
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Encourage improvements and better screening of the industrial units in Gastons Road *
Encourage improved maintenance of properties (eg Nos. 45 and 65 Lower High Street) *
Repair frontages of Nos. 9-11 and 65 High Street *
Encourage sensitive restoration of the ancillary buildings that form part of the Manor House *
Reinstate missing features as identified on the list descriptions of 2-12 Gastons Road H
Consider traffic controls around the Market Place H
Encourage replacement of garages to the rear of 25-47 Gastons Road *
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Appendix A - References and links to relevant legislation, codes of practice and guidance Legislation and codes of practice Traffic Calming Act 1992
Highways Act 1980
The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999 The Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
The Hedgerows Regulations 1997
Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979
The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
Disability Discrimination Act 2005
Rights of Way Act 1990
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005
New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Specification of reinstatement of openings in highways Code of practice- 2002
The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995
The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1994
Environment Protection Act 1990
Traffic Calming Act 1992
The Building Act 1984 and Building Regulations: Legislation
The Building Regulations 2000
Building Regulations: Approved Document M
Guidance A Stitch in Time, IHBC & SPAB (2002)
Planning Policy Statement 1 – Delivering Sustainable Development
Planning Policy statement 7: Delivering sustainable development in rural areas
Planning Policy Statement PPS5, Planning for the Historic Environment
Planning Policy Guidance 19, Outdoor Advertisement Control, Department of the Environment, 1992
Streets For All: South West, English Heritage (2005)
Guidance on the use of Tactile Paving, Department for Transport
Traffic measures in Historic Towns, English Historic Towns Forum
External Lighting for Historic Buildings, English Heritage
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Lighting the Environment: A guide to good urban lighting, CIBSE Circular 02/2003, Department for Transport Traffic Advisory Leaflet 6/05Traditional Direction Signs, Department for Transport 2005
Manual for Streets
Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DRMB), Highways Agency
Development in the Historic Environment, English Heritage, 1995
Building In Context, English Heritage and CABE 2001
Guidance on Conservation Area Appraisals, English Heritage (2005)
Guidance on the Management of Conservation Areas, English Heritage
Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, English Heritage Countryside and Open Space Strategy, North Wiltshire District Council
Section 215 Best Practice Guidance
A Strategy for the Historic Environment in the South West, English Heritage (2004)
North Wiltshire Landscape Character Assessment, White Consultants (2004)
Enabling development and the conservation of heritage assets, English Heritage
Historic Military Aviation Sites: Conservation management guidance, English Heritage (2003)
Farming the historic landscape: Caring for historic parkland, English Heritage (2005)
Capturing the Public Value of Heritage, English Heritage (January 2006)
Grants for Historic Buildings, Monuments and Designed Landscapes, English Heritage
Heritage Counts, English Heritage (2008)
Grants to local authorities to underwrite Urgent Works Notices, English Heritage
Heritage Works: The use of historic buildings in regeneration, English Heritage
Making the past part of our future: English Heritage Strategy 2005-2010
Managing local authority heritage assets, English Heritage (June 2003)
Outstanding Beauty: Outstanding Heritage: AONBs and the historic environment, English Heritage
Regeneration and the Historic Environment: Heritage as a catalyst for better social and economic regeneration, English Heritage
Twentieth-Century Military Sites: Current approaches to their recording and conservation, English Heritage (2003)
Why your authority should appoint an Historic Environment Champion, English Heritage (2006)
Power of Place: The Future of the Historic Environment
Recharging the Power of Place: Valuing local significance
Statement of Community Involvement: North Wiltshire District Council Local Development Framework, Adopted Document January 2007
Stopping the Rot: A step by step guide to serving Urgent Works and Repairs Notices, English Heritage
North Wiltshire Local Plan 2011
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Appendix B - Potential resources English Heritage recommends that management strategies for conservation areas include, as appropriate, a ‘consideration of the resources needed to sustain the historic environment in the area concerned ’7. The organisations identified below may contribute to the management of conservation areas in providing various. They may be a financial contribution, professional advice, local knowledge, use of their legal powers, a contribution of spare time or any combination of the above. The individual contributions listed next to the organisations below are not intended to be an exhaustive list but to indicate the main areas of responsibility/support. Area board Malmesbury Area Board can allocate financial resources and help in organising collaboration between interested parties. Developers This category reflects the resources that can be directed toward enhancement of Conservation Areas by the allocation of Section 106 monies and planning conditions. English Heritage English Heritage provides guidance, on both policy and technical issues, as well as offering limited financial assistance. Lottery funding and other grant award schemes From time to time monies may be allocated toward enhancement schemes within the county. Local interest groups Local groups include civic societies, conservation area liaison groups, chambers of commerce and town or village specific organisations such as the Malmesbury River Valleys Trust. National interest groups These groups can provide detailed advice specific to their area of interest: examples include the Historic Towns Forum, The Victorian Society, and the Council for the Protection of Rural England. Parish councils Parish councils can provide local knowledge and comments on planning applications and they may allocate funding at a local level to preserve and enhance Conservation Areas within the parish.
7 Guidance on the Management of Conservation Areas, English Heritage 2006, Page 13
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Statutory undertakers These are various non-governmental organisations licensed under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA) to undertake works in the highway. The term highway includes the carriageway, footway and verge. These organisations are bound by the NRSWA Act to carry out works to certain standards. Town councils Can provide local knowledge, comments on planning applications and allocate or identify funding at a local level to preserve and enhance conservation areas within the town. Wiltshire Council Wiltshire Council carries out statutory and non-statutory activities in all conservation areas. • Archaeology: Wiltshire Council provides archaeological and research resources. • Planning authority: The council can use its powers as a planning authority to preserve
and enhance the Conservation Areas under its care. • Highway Authority: Wiltshire Council, in its role as the local Highway Authority, has a
duty to maintain public highways, including public rights of way. The council also co-ordinates the implementation of street works between statutory undertakers, developers and other parties licensed to work on the highway.
• Wiltshire Council provides maintenance, drainage, urban design and other technical advice.
Residents and owners Residents and owners can contribute to the character of a conservation area through various means such as the appropriate maintenance of their properties, maintaining planting in private areas and improving the frontages to businesses.
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Appendix C - List of buildings subject to Article 4 Directions Abbey Row 58 - 64 even 76 and 82 (The Triangle) Back Hill 24 - 34 Back Hill 24 - 34 Baskerville Road 42 - 50 even Bristol Street 10 and 14 40 31 - 51 odd 57 - 67 odd 71 - 77 odd Burnham Road 1 and 3 18 - 26 even Burnivale Road 31 and 33 33A - 59 odd Cross Hayes 18 and 20 Foundry Road 49 54 - 56 consec
Gloucester Road 71 and 73 81 - 87 odd 107 "Avonia" 92,94 and 108 Converted Warehouse at junction of Shipton Hill Gloucester Street 16 High Street 68 Holloway Hill 34 Horsefair 20 and 31 Ingram Street 1 - 7 odd 11 - 13 odd 14 - 22 "Rosemead" Katifer Lane 2, 3, 7, 8 and 10 King's Wall 1 and 7 "Kings Wall House" 9, 13 and 28
Mill Lane Cottages at old Abbey Mill site Mundens Close Olivers Lane 1 Oxford Street 16 and 18 Silver Street 2,5,10 and 12 24 - 34 even Back Hill St John Street 2,4,29 and 30 34 - 38 even 35 "Avon Bank" St Mary's Lane 1 St Mary's Street 1 and 3 8 - 14 even 13 - 17 odd 19 "Mansfield Terrace" West Street 15
This list is correct at the date of publication, but may vary over time. If contemplating works to a building in the Conservation Area, owners should check with the planning authority to determine if specific consent will be required. February 2010
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