Object

Representation ID: 66077

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The proposal represents a sizable development within the setting of Woodcote House (Grade II listed). There appears to be no evidence to demonstrate the significance of the heritage assets, or conservation area.

The NPPF requires Local Plans, as a whole, to set out a positive strategy for the conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment. This means ensuring that the sites which it is proposing to put forward for development will assist in delivering such a strategy and not contradict it.

The selection of sites for development needs to be informed by the evidence base and the Plan should avoid allocating those sites which are likely to result in harm to the significance of the heritage assets of the Plan area. Where adverse impacts are unavoidable, the plan should consider how that harm might be reduced and any residual harm mitigated (NPPF para 152).
Without an historic environment assessment the local authority is unable to assert that the objectives for sustainable development have been understood.