Issue - meetings

To consider the head of planning’s report. 

Cabinet considered the head of planning’s report on the Wallingford Conservation Area.  The report summarised the representations received during consultation and set out proposed changes to the Conservation Area Appraisal document and to the Conservation Area boundary. 

The consultation exercise had resulted in support for the documents, with some suggesting changes.  The officers had proposed changes to update the appraisal document, adding information to provide further evidence of the historical and communal value of the Conservation Area, and adjusting the boundary to include or exclude buildings or land.  

The options open to Cabinet were to:

1.    agree that the proposed extended Conservation Area was of special architectural or historic interest and the character or appearance of which was desirable to preserve or enhance; or

2.    agree that the proposed extended Conservation Area was not of special architectural or historic interest and the character or appearance of which was not desirable to preserve or enhance; or 

3.    agree that there was an area of special architectural or historic interest and the character or appearance of which was desirable to preserve or enhance but that the boundary should be different to that proposed. 

Cabinet agreed with option 1, that the proposed extended Conservation Area was of special architectural or historic interest and the character or appearance of which was desirable to preserve or enhance. 

RESOLVED: to

(a)      adopt the Wallingford Conservation Area boundary as shown in appendix 1 to the head of planning’s report to Cabinet on 5 April 2018;

(b)      adopt the Wallingford Conservation Area Appraisal, as amended following public consultation as set out in appendix 3 to the head of planning’s report to Cabinet on 5 April 2018, as part of the development plan evidence base and as a material planning consideration; and

(c)       delegate authority to the head of planning, in consultation with the Cabinet member for planning, to make minor changes, typographical corrections or non-material amendments to the Wallingford Conservation Area Appraisal and associated documents prior to formal publication, and to undertake the necessary statutory actions to implement Cabinet’s resolutions.