Policy information sourced from Thurrock Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development
PMD4 - HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT
The Council will ensure that the fabric and setting of heritage assets, including Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas, Scheduled Monuments and other important archeological sites, and historic landscape features are appropriately protected and enhanced in accordance with their significance.
- The Council will also require new development to take all reasonable steps to retain and incorporate non-statutorily protected heritage assets contributing to the quality of Thurrock’s broader historic environment.
- Applications must demonstrate that they contribute positively to the special qualities and local distinctiveness of Thurrock, through compliance with local heritage guidance including:
- Conservation Area Character Appraisals;
- Conservation Area Management Proposals;
- Other relevant Thurrock-based studies, including the Landscape Capacity Study (2005), the Thurrock Urban Character Study (2007) and the Thurrock Unitary Historic Environment Characterisation Project (2009).
- Further local guidance as it is developed.
- The Council will follow the approach set out in the NPPF in the determination of applications affecting Thurrock’s built or archaeological heritage assets including the expectation that the relevant historic environment record will be consulted and the heritage asset(s) assessed using appropriate expertise where necessary. This will include consideration of alterations, extensions or demolition of Listed Buildings or the demolition of unlisted buildings within Conservation Areas, and requirements for pre-determination archaeological evaluations and for preservation of archaeology in situ or by recording.
Key Diagram and Maps
Map 4: Location of Landscape Character Areas
Map 6: Location of Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments and Conservation Areas
For more information please see the Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development