- Item
- Heritage statement and design & access statement
- Application type
- Householder applications
- Driver
- When required
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When the property is statutory or locally listed building or within a conservation area.
- Further information and guidance
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This is a national requirement. A Heritage Statement will only be required if your property is a statutory or locally listed building or within a conservation area, or affects any heritage asset and their setting. Further guidance about the consultation and notification requirements for heritage related applications can be found at the GOV.UK website.
The Heritage Statement must:
- describe and assess the significance of the asset and/or its setting to determine its architectural, historic, artistic or archaeological interest; and
- identify the impact of works on the special character of the asset; and
- provide a clear justification for the works, especially if these would harm the asset or its setting, so that the harm can be weighed against public benefits.
The level of detail required should be proportionate to the asset’s importance and sufficient to understand the potential impact of the proposal on its significance and/or setting.
Note: heritage asset includes Conservation Areas, listed buildings, locally listed buildings, scheduled monuments, listed parks and gardens, areas of archaeological importance.
Design and Access Statement is only required for:
- major development, or;
- if the site is within a Conservation Area and the proposal is for:
- one or more dwellings
- a building or buildings where the floor area created by the development is 100 square metres or more (measured externally). (Please note, applications for Listed Building Consent also require a Design and Access Statement.)
A Design & Access Statement should:
- explain the design principles and concepts that have been applied to the development
- demonstrate the steps that have been taken to appraise the context of the development and how the design of the development takes that context into account in relation to the proposed use
- state what, if any, consultation has been undertaken on issues relating to access to the development and what account has been taken of the outcome of any such consultation, and
- explain how specific issues which might affect access to the development have been addressed.
