Conservation Areas Review - Summary and Responses

The residential roofs and chimneys should be retained and protected from ad-hoc development. As several buildings in the conservation area are painted in muted colours, it would be beneficial to control painting. Wedgwood Place and Westport Road have boundary walls that should be retained and protected.

Extended to include: the part of Queen’s Road to the south which includes the Lucideon site; the boundary wall to the NSRI and the mature trees adjacent to the cemetery should be included to protect the setting and character of the area.

Painting should be controlled with regard to colour, including the setting of the Gladstone Museum. Where original housing survives, especially that in Normacot Road, original roof tiles and chimneys are to be protected where adjacent to the listed Sutherland Works.

Amended to reflect the correct footprint of the buildings on the Steelite site to ensure that the frontage buildings are correctly identified (part reduced, part extended, between Shirley St & Orme St)

Extended to include the whole of the new development at the south side as the current boundary does not reflect the footprint of the new building, including the corner of the site to protect the green edge and setting when viewed from the main road. 

Extended to include the open land comprising The Croft and school playing fields in order to protect the mature trees and landscape setting.

Extended to include Penkhull Hardware Shop, protecting the gateway to the CA from the west gives and protecting the setting of the Methodist Chapel immediately adjacent.

Extended to include the open space to the north and the west to preserve the green setting of the CA, acknowledging the complete land holding for the cottage homes.

Controls to preserve the uniform appearance of the cottage homes so that they remain unpainted and roof slopes unaltered.

Extended to include: the area in front of the former Hide Market and adjacent locally listed Lloyds Bank building following demolition which has restored the original spatial arrangement of the first market square; and a few buildings to the west side of the churchyard to better define the edge of the CA.

Extended to include part of the High Street to the north to help manage change and redevelopment of the former cinema site, conserve the decorative frontages to the early twentieth-century buildings together with the setting for the refurbished Town Hall.

Extended to include: the landscape buffer and relevant walls adjacent to the canal or tow path edge, ensuring that the existing character of the area is conserved and gives opportunity for enhancement; and by adding the twentieth-century lock keepers house at Vernon Road, a very late example of this building type, further enhancing the historic significance of the area.

Article 4 Direction to include restored terraces adjacent to Middleport Pottery which provide a positive setting and context for the factory.

Incorporating former Victoria Place and Hitchman St CAs and extended to include the listed and locally listed buildings adjacent to the site, affording the twentieth-century fire station and drill hall some protection against demolition and improve the status of the listed buildings for any future applications for grant aid.

The previous Article 4 Direction should be reapplied to ensure the conservation of features that give the buildings a unified appearance.

Extended to include: Federation House to the north west of the square; and the former post office, a collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century buildings joined to the station to provide a continuous frontage along the south eastern approach.