Policy HN5 - Non-Designated Heritage Assets

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Object

Development Management Plan Revised Proposed Submission Version March 2014

Representation ID: 5848

Received: 22/04/2014

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

The loss of the East Wing of the Convent is threatened by this Policy, and the Council's treatment of 'enabling development' needs to be clarified.

Full text:

The middle paragraph touches on the role of enabling development in treating a site, so why is this not mentioned?
HBC has formally notified English Heritage that the Convent application has been submitted, but not that it is an enabling development application. However HBC cannot exercise due diligence in the matter without formally notifying English Heritage that the application has been submitted as an enabling development.

HELM (Historic Environment Local Management), the specialist wing of English Heritage, has stated of the legal basis for requiring the justification necessary to determine such planning applications:
enabling development should be subject to the same degree of financial scrutiny, transparency and accountability as cash grants from public funds, or indeed all financial and quasi-financial decisions made by public authorities. The exercise of due diligence is essential.