Policy information sourced from the Guildford Local Plan: Develpment Managment Policies
D24: Enabling Development and Heritage Assets
Development proposals for enabling development that would otherwise conflict with other planning policies, but which would secure the future conservation of a heritage asset are required to demonstrate that:
- the enabling development would not materially harm the significance of the heritage asset or its setting and is the minimum necessary required to address the ‘conservation deficit’;
- the enabling development is necessary to solve the conservation needs of the asset or place and not the financial needs of the present owner or to compensate the price paid for the asset or site;
- there are no alternative means of delivering the same outcomes for the heritage asset, and that a full range of realistic possible options has been explored; and
- it meets the guidance set out in the Historic England document, Enabling Development and Heritage Asset: Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning Note 4 (or guidance superseding it).
Development proposals are required to be accompanied by a conservation management plan which identifies the scale and cost of the current repairs and maintenance requirements of the heritage asset.
Development proposals are required to demonstrate that the resultant benefits of the enabling development outweigh the disbenefits. Applications which fail to demonstrate this will be refused.
Development proposals are required to undertake necessary repairs and maintenance of the heritage asset to secure its future conservation prior to the completion of the enabling development. This will be secured by planning condition or legal agreement.
For more information please see the Local Plan