Department of Regeneration – making great places Planning and World Heritage – 2 nd March 2010 The Saltaire Environmental Capacity Study: its role in the

Department of Regeneration – making great placesPlanning and World Heritage – 2nd March 2010

The Saltaire Environmental Capacity Study: its role in the conservation of Outstanding Universal Value

Craig McHugh

World Heritage Site Officer

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council


Overview

• History, Location, Outstanding Universal Value• World Heritage and Development Management• Environmental Capacity Study

– Background, Purpose & Methodology – In Use: Day-to-day, Projects, Long-term management,

Future


History, Location & Outstanding Universal Value


History


Location – suburban Bradford@ and database right Crown copyright and Landmark Information Group Ltd 2003. All rights reserved. Bradford MDC 100019304 2008


Outstanding Universal Value

• Criterion (ii): Saltaire is an outstanding and well preserved example of a mid 19th century industrial town, the layout of which was to exert a major influence on the development of the "garden city" movement.

• It had an influence far beyond its time period or locality


Outstanding Universal Value

• Criterion (iv): The layout and architecture of Saltaire admirably reflect mid 19th century philanthropic paternalism, as well as the important role played by the textile industry in economic and social development.

• One of the best preserved examples of its kind in the world


Boundary


Buffer Zone


World Heritage and Development Management for Saltaire


City of Bradford Metropolitan District CouncilRegeneration ■ Adult and Community Services ■ Children's Services ■ Corporate Services Culture, Tourism and Sport ■ Environment and Neighbourhoods ■ Performance and Commissioning

Department of RegenerationPlanning ■ Transportation & Highways ■ Asset Management ■ Economic Development ■ Housing

Planning ServiceDesign & Countryside ■ Development Management ■ Building Control ■ Local Development Framework

Design & Countryside GroupDesign & Conservation ■ Landscape Design ■ Countryside & Rights of Way

Design and Conservation TeamListed Buildings 5800 ■ Conservation Areas 59 ■ Historic Parks 12 ■ World Heritage Sites 1


World Heritage Site Officer

• Planning roles– Advice to owners on alterations and repairs– Consultations on applications in the Buffer Zone– Planning applications and Listed Building Consents in Saltaire

• Non-Planning roles– Project work– Co-ordination/ representation: management meetings– Management and Monitoring: Management Plan, Monitoring

surveys


Management Structure

Officer GroupCouncil Officers

Conservation, Highways, Tourism etc

Project TeamLocal stakeholders

Councillors, residents, businesses, college

Advisory BoardSenior Council Members and Officers, Regional and national stakeholders English Heritage, Tourist Board etc

Team Leader Design & Conservation (delegated powers)

Chair is member of Area Planning Panel

Assistant Director Planning (Chair)

Portfolio holder

Project Team Chair

Team Leader Design & Conservation

Planning Overlap


Planning at Bradford

Area PlanningPanel (Shipley)

Design & ConservationTeam

Listed Building ConsentsMinor Planning Apps

Consultations on selectedPlanning Apps

Major Development TeamMajor Planning Apps

Householder TeamDistrict Team

Minor Planning Appsin the Buffer Zone


World Heritage Site Policy(saved from Revised UDP)Policy S/BH14• There will be a presumption in favour of the preservation of the World Heritage

Site and its setting. Development which would adversely affect the character, appearance, setting or views into or out of the World Heritage Site will not be permitted therefore:

• Within the boundary of the World Heritage Site… applicants will be required to demonstrate that full account has been taken of the impact of their proposals upon the World Heritage Site and its setting and that their scheme will have no adverse affect upon it.

• Within the Buffer Zone… development which would be likely to adversely affect views into or out of the World Heritage Site will only be permitted where a suitable program of mitigation is proposed...

• The World Heritage Site is also entirely within the Saltaire Conservation Area (designated 1971) and all buildings of significance are Listed (1985). Further protection is provided by District-wide policies relating to the built heritage, design and landscape character


Environmental Capacity Study


Background & Purpose

• Need identified in 2000 Management Plan to aid the long-term management of the Site

• Study commissioned by Bradford Council in 2005• Undertaken by Atkins Heritage• Completed 2006 and awarded RTPI Heritage AwardPurpose• To evaluate the level and type of change that the WHS

and its setting could accommodate• Recommend a series of monitoring indicators that could

be used to aid the long-term management of the Site• Enable positive change to take place


Method• Environmental Capacity “The ability of the environment of a place to

accommodate specific types of change or development without degrading its special interest, character, fabric or setting.”

• Identify key values of the Site – Fabric, Character, Quality of Life• Understand issues and threats to those values – Traffic, Tourism,

Development• Assess the relative nature of the threat – Minor, Moderate,

Significant• Establish monitoring indicators for those of greatest concern

• Study developed with public consultation

• Working group Council Officers, Chair of Project Team, English Heritage


In Use: day-to-day Development Management• Few sites for development within the World

Heritage Site boundary due to density of original design

• Buildings of significance are all listed• Potential threat to the OUV from Development in

the Setting of the Site• Comprehensive survey of the Setting

undertaken as part of the ECS


Setting analysis

• Views out of and across the Site

• Distant views to the Site• Key backdrops for the

views• Approaches and

gateways to the Site• Historically related

features• Detractors


Views within and out of the Site


Approaches and Gateways


Immediate Setting


Development Management Consultations

• ECS analysis of Setting is used to inform Development Management consultations

• All applications in the immediate setting• Major applications in the rest of the Buffer Zone• Majority of minor cases “no impact”• Saving in officer time, focus effort were an

impact is likely


Salt Grammar redevelopment


Previous building


New building


Visual Impact Assessment


In use: Projects


Saltaire Roundabout


In use: long term management

• Fabric Survey – rapid street-based assessment of the authenticity and condition of buildings

Informing• Guidance to owners• Enforcement action• Long term conservation


Future use: Management Plan Revision

1. Description the setting, views, approaches

2. Evaluation values identified in ECS plus others

3. Threats and Opportunities

4. Policies for management

5. Implementation and Monitoring

Environmental Capacity Study


Full document and Executive Summary online www.bradford.gov.uk/ecs

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