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(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Dowding)

Report of Director for Economic Growth & Regeneration

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Dowding)

Cabinet received a report from the Director for Economic Growth & Regeneration that advised Cabinet of the proposals and the outcome of a consultation and sought approval for the making of a new designated Lancaster Moor Conservation Area.

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment and officer preferred option, were set out in the report as follows:

The officer preferred option was option 1. In accordance with the LPA’s statutory duties and national policy, and having considered the responses to the public consultation, the LPA concludes that a conservation area designation for Lancaster Moor is retained, but with minor modifications to the conservation area boundary. As a consequence of these amendments, it is therefore recommended that the previous conservation area designation be rescinded and that a new conservation area designation be made under section 69 of the 1990 Act, based on the revised boundary map within Appendix 7 to the report.

Councillor Dowding proposed, seconded by Councillor Matthews:-

“That the recommendation, as set out in the report, be approved.”

Councillors then voted:-

Having declared an interest in this item Councillor Caroline Jackson abstained during the vote.

Resolved:

(8 Members (Councillors Brookes, Dowding, Frea, Hamilton-Cox, Matthews, Thornberry, Whitehead & Wood) voted in favour, and 1 Member (Councillor Caroline Jackson) abstained.)

(1)             That the rescinding of the previous Lancaster Moor Conservation Area designation be approved, and approval be given to the making of a new designated Lancaster Moor Conservation Area.

Officer responsible for effecting the decision:

Head of Planning & Place

Reasons for making the decision:

Under Section 69 of the Town and Country Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, the Council has a duty to consider which parts of the district comprise areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character and appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance and designate those areas as conservation areas. The adopted Local Plan contains policies for the management of conservation areas in response to planning applications for the development of land and buildings.

Having considered all the responses to the consultation on the principle of the conservation area designation officers concluded that none of the responses and issues raised within them outweighed the justification for conservation area designation for Lancaster Moor although as a result of the consultation a minor boundary change (as proposed by residents) was deemed appropriate, on the basis that the properties in question form part of an infill of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 47