Table 3 - Numbers of Conservation Areas, Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments and Registered Parks and Gardens
Object
Publication
Representation ID: 23956
Received: 18/03/2021
Respondent: Historic England
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Paras 104-107 and Table 3
We welcome the changes made in these paragraphs to better reflect NPPF terminology (scheduled monuments, heritage assets and Registered Parks and Gardens) as well as the additional sentence referencing the city centre’s current street pattern reflecting historic influences.
We continue to suggest reference to what heritage is at risk and historic landscape characterisation.
Please add a sentence in relation to heritage at risk and also historic landscape characterisation.
Thank you for consulting Historic England on the Greater Norwich Local Plan Regulation 19 Draft including The Strategy and The Sites. As a statutory consultee, our role is to ensure that the conservation of the historic environment is fully integrated into planning policy and that any policy documents make provision for a positive strategy for the conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment.
Our comments below should be read with reference to our previous comments dated 1.2.17, 15.3.18, 4.12.1, 26.4.19 and 16.3.20. Please also see our detailed comments in the attached tables, Appendix A in relation to The Strategy and Appendix B regarding The Sites.
SUMMARY
The Greater Norwich Local Plan covers the Strategy and Site Allocations. While commenting on the plan as a whole, Historic England is particularly concerned, for its implications for Norwich itself. Norwich is one of England’s great historic cities, and its architectural and historic character, and the sense of place associated with that, make a profound and wholly beneficial contribution to the city’s well-being.
In line with paragraph 185 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) it is important that the Plan should set out a positive strategy for the conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment, including heritage assets most at risk through neglect, decay or other threats.