conservation area

[mitsy]

I live in a conservation area and there is an old victorian school that a developer has purchased and wants to pull down for houses, I have been told that due to the conservation area the school could be protected by the listed building rules, does anyone know if this is true??

Many Thanks

[Prudentia]

visit your local planning office urgently, you have a right in law to register an objection, once you do many others will follow

[mitsy]

Hi we have objected but the developer keeps putting the plans in, in the next planning meeting its up for demolition and construction of new houses, just wondered if the above would help us to stop the demolition of this school

[tamborine]

The final could be just the facade being protected, or development on the footprint. New houses are needed!

Often, protected buildings have faulty electrics.........whooooooooooosh!

[Prudentia]

you will have to keep the pressure on your local planning authority, do you have a local conservation society? If you do they will help.

[Prudentia]

you can find out if the building is listed from your local authority or english heritage.

[mitsy]

i am involved with a conservation group and we are just trying to think of different ways to try and stop this building from being pulled down, and no houses are needed in the area I live there are about 10 empty houses in the street i live already and no one interested in buying them

[Prudentia]

make an approach to english heritage on their website, they are very good.

[Buenchico]

If the school is in a conservation area the developer can't even repaint the door a different colour (or put up a satellite dish) without council permission, yet alone knock it down!

However there's no automatic bar to demolishing any listed building, or building in a conservation area. (The Queen can knock down Windsor Castle if she can get permission from the local council and DEFRA!). It's simply that the developer must apply for 'conservation area consent' and the council must use appropriate criteria when deciding whether or not to grant such consent.

As with any form of planning application, local residents have the right to object to the application. (The main difference is that objections to 'ordinary' planning permission are normally only sought, and considered, from those who live very close to the property. If the building is in a conservation area, anyone living in, or around, the whole of that area can object).

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/P lanning/PlanningPermission/DG_10026179

Chris

[bushbaby_de]

Sorry but you need to distinguish between a conservation area and a listed building. A building can be in a conservation area without being listed. The rules for the two are very different. For an unlisted building in a conservation area there is nothing to stop you changing the colour of your door, sorry Chris. However, even if the building is not listed, the Council is unlikely to give permission for a building in a conservation area to be demolished until they are happy with the replacement. If the land is in a residential area, there is nigh on nothing you can do to stop them building houses if they can come up with a scheme that meets all the relevant local policies.

[bushbaby_de]

Oh and also, anyone can object to any planning application, no matter what type of application or where you live.