The document discusses conservation and preservation of historic buildings and areas in Hackney, London. It provides information on: 1) Principles from Historic England on conserving the historic environment, including understanding significance, managing places to sustain values, and ensuring decisions are reasonable and consistent. 2) Assessing the evidential, historical, aesthetic, and communal values of heritage assets to understand their significance. 3) The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 which requires local authorities to designate conservation areas to preserve or enhance areas of special architectural or historic interest. 4) The case of St Mary's Lodge, a locally listed building in the Lordship Park Conservation Area, and efforts to conserve

1. Conservation & Preservation
Nick Perry
The Hackney Society • Clapton CAAC • Stoke Newington CAAC • Stokey Local

2. The need to build

3. Planning

4. Planning

5. Planning
A4D Removing rights

6. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans

7. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres

8. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations

9. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations
Conservation Areas

10. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations
Conservation Areas

11. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations
Conservation Areas
Listed Buildings

12. Historic England’s Conservation Principles
“Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance sets out six high-level principles:
• The historic environment is a shared resource
• Everyone should be able to participate in sustaining the historic environment
• Understanding the significance of places is vital
• Significant places should be managed to sustain their values
• Decisions about change must be reasonable, transparent and consistent
• Documenting and learning from decisions is essential
The principles respond to the need for a clear, over-arching philosophical
framework of what conservation means at the beginning of the 21st century.”

13. “Understanding the significance of places is vital”

14. Significance
• “Evidential value: the potential of a place to yield evidence
about past human activity.
• Historical value: the ways in which past people, events and
aspects of life can be connected through a place to the
present - it tends to be illustrative or associative.
• Aesthetic value: the ways in which people draw sensory and
intellectual stimulation from a place.
• Communal value: the meanings of a place for the people
who relate to it, or for whom it figures in their collective
experience or memory.”

15. Significance
• “Evidential value: archaeology
• Historical value: people and events
• Aesthetic value: architecture
• Communal value: community

16. Changing attitudes to historic buildings

17. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
para 17. Core planning principles
• conserve heritage assets in a manner appropriate to
their significance, so that they can be enjoyed for
their contribution to the quality of life of this and future
generations;

18. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
sec 12. Conserving and enhancing the historic environment
• … sustaining and enhancing the significance of heritage assets
and putting them to viable uses consistent with their conservation…
• …identify and assess the particular significance of any heritage
asset…
• …great weight should be given to the asset’s conservation…
• …new development within Conservation Areas … and within the
setting of heritage assets to enhance or better reveal their
significance. Proposals that preserve those elements of the setting
that make a positive contribution to or better reveal the significance of
the asset…

19. Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)
Act 1990
69.Designation of conservation areas.
(1) Every local planning authority—
(a) shall from time to time determine which parts of
their area are areas of special architectural or
historic interest the character or appearance of
which it is desirable to preserve or enhance,
and
(b) shall designate those areas as conservation
areas.

20. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations
Conservation Areas

21. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations
Conservation Areas
Local List

22. Planning
A4D Removing rights
Crossrail, Action Plans
Town Centres
Site Allocations
Conservation Areas
Local List

23. St Mary’s
Lodge
73 Lordship Road
Locally Listed
Conservation Area

24. St Mary’s
Lodge
73 Lordship Road
Locally Listed
Conservation Area

25. St Mary’s
Lodge
73 Lordship Road
Locally Listed
Conservation Area

26. St Mary’s
Lodge
73 Lordship Road
Locally Listed
Conservation Area

27. St Mary’s Lodge
1993 – 2005– 2016

28. St Mary’s Lodge
A record of decay

29. St Mary’s Lodge
A record of decay

30. St Mary’s Lodge
• English Heritage recommended St
Mary’s Lodge is not Listed in March
2003, without looking inside.
• DCMS ask EH to update their
recommendation in 2004, but they
stand by their view
• post-1840 cutoff
• architectural interest confined to
central bay
• John Young “fairly obscure”
• Interior “utterly devoid of interest”
• Importance as 1st generation villa
is of “local significance” only

31. St Mary’s Lodge
Hackney Council designate a
Lordship Park Conservation
Area

32. LORDSHIP PARK
STOKE NEWINGTON – LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY
Proposed
designation as a
conservation area
St Mary’s Lodge
Hackney Council designate a
Lordship Park Conservation Area
Demolition or visible changes
now require planning permission.

33. St Mary’s Lodge
“Demolition of existing single
storey side extension, erection of
two storey side extension and the
renovation and conversion of
existing building to a Nursery
School (Use Class D1) and
erection of a new detached 2
storey plus lower ground floor
school building (Use class D1).”

34. St Mary’s Lodge

35. St Marv's Lod 73 Lordship Road Planni Brief (Outline)
Contents
1. Objectives
2. lnformation about the planning brief process
3. Site lnformation
4. Opportunities and Constraints
5. Policy Context
6. Appropriate development responses
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Objectives
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2. lnformation about the planning brief process
Who prepared the brief;2.1
St Mary’s Lodge
2016 meeting with the local community
proposes developing a ‘Planning Brief’
to include:
Acceptable/unacceptable uses
• Planning standards to be applied
• Layout of the development including
access, parking and circulation
• Scale, massing and height of buildings
• Landscaping
• Buildings to be retained
• Design criteria
• Planning Obligations

36. St Mary’s Lodge The future

37. St Mary’s Lodge The future

38. St Mary’s Lodge The future

39. St Mary’s Lodge The future