The Saltaire Environmental
Capacity Study: its role in the
conservation of Outstanding
Universal Value
Craig McHugh
World Heritage Site Officer
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
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Overview
• History, Location, Outstanding Universal Value
• World Heritage and Development Management
• Environmental Capacity Study
– Background, Purpose & Methodology
– In Use: Day-to-day, Projects, Long-term management,
Future
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History, Location & Outstanding
Universal Value
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History
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Location – suburban Bradford
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Outstanding Universal Value
• Criterion (ii): Saltaire is an
outstanding and well
preserved example of a mid
19th century industrial town,
the layout of which was to
exert a major influence on the
development of the "garden
city" movement.
• It had an influence far beyond
its time period or locality
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Outstanding Universal Value
• Criterion (iv): The layout and
architecture of Saltaire
admirably reflect mid 19th
century philanthropic
paternalism, as well as the
important role played by the
textile industry in economic
and social development.
• One of the best preserved
examples of its kind in the
world
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Boundary
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Buffer Zone
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World Heritage and Development
Management for Saltaire
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City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Regeneration ■ Adult and Community Services ■ Children's Services ■ Corporate Services Culture, Tourism
and Sport ■ Environment and Neighbourhoods ■ Performance and Commissioning
Department of Regeneration
Planning ■ Transportation & Highways ■ Asset Management ■ Economic Development ■ Housing
Planning Service
Design & Countryside ■ Development Management ■ Building Control ■ Local Development Framework
Design & Countryside Group
Design & Conservation ■ Landscape Design ■ Countryside & Rights of Way
Design and Conservation Team
Listed Buildings 5800 ■ Conservation Areas 59 ■ Historic Parks 12 ■ World Heritage Sites 1
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World Heritage Site Officer
• Planning roles
– Advice to owners on alterations and repairs
– Consultations on applications in the Buffer Zone
– Planning applications and Listed Building Consents in Saltaire
• Non-Planning roles
– Project work
– Co-ordination/ representation: management meetings
– Management and Monitoring: Management Plan, Monitoring
surveys
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Management Structure
Officer Group
Project Team
Advisory Board
Council Officers
Conservation, Highways,
Tourism etc
Local stakeholders
Councillors, residents,
businesses, college
Senior Council Members
and Officers, Regional
and national stakeholders
English Heritage, Tourist
Board etc
Team Leader Design &
Conservation (delegated
powers)
Chair is member of Area
Planning Panel
Assistant Director
Planning (Chair)
Portfolio holder
Project Team Chair
Team Leader Design &
Conservation
Planning Overlap
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Planning at Bradford
Area Planning
Panel (Shipley)
Design & Conservation
Team
Listed Building Consents
Minor Planning Apps
Consultations on selected
Planning Apps
Major Development Team
Major Planning Apps
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Householder Team
District Team
Minor Planning Apps
in the Buffer Zone
World Heritage Site Policy
(saved from Revised UDP)
Policy S/BH14
•
There will be a presumption in favour of the preservation of the World Heritage
Site and its setting. Development which would adversely affect the character,
appearance, setting or views into or out of the World Heritage Site will not be
permitted therefore:
•
Within the boundary of the World Heritage Site… applicants will be required to
demonstrate that full account has been taken of the impact of their proposals upon
the World Heritage Site and its setting and that their scheme will have no adverse
affect upon it.
•
Within the Buffer Zone… development which would be likely to adversely affect views
into or out of the World Heritage Site will only be permitted where a suitable program
of mitigation is proposed...
•
The World Heritage Site is also entirely within the Saltaire Conservation Area
(designated 1971) and all buildings of significance are Listed (1985). Further
protection is provided by District-wide policies relating to the built heritage, design
and landscape character
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Environmental Capacity Study
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Background & Purpose
• Need identified in 2000 Management Plan to aid the
long-term management of the Site
• Study commissioned by Bradford Council in 2005
• Undertaken by Atkins Heritage
• Completed 2006 and awarded RTPI Heritage Award
Purpose
• To evaluate the level and type of change that the WHS
and its setting could accommodate
• Recommend a series of monitoring indicators that could
be used to aid the long-term management of the Site
• Enable positive change to take place
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Method
• Environmental Capacity “The ability of the environment of a place to
accommodate specific types of change or development without
degrading its special interest, character, fabric or setting.”
• Identify key values of the Site – Fabric, Character, Quality of Life
• Understand issues and threats to those values – Traffic, Tourism,
Development
• Assess the relative nature of the threat – Minor, Moderate,
Significant
• Establish monitoring indicators for those of greatest concern
• Study developed with public consultation
• Working group Council Officers, Chair of Project Team, English
Heritage
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In Use: day-to-day Development
Management
• Few sites for development within the World
Heritage Site boundary due to density of original
design
• Buildings of significance are all listed
• Potential threat to the OUV from Development in
the Setting of the Site
• Comprehensive survey of the Setting
undertaken as part of the ECS
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Setting analysis
• Views out of and across
the Site
• Distant views to the Site
• Key backdrops for the
views
• Approaches and
gateways to the Site
• Historically related
features
• Detractors
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Views within and out of the Site
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Approaches and Gateways
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Immediate Setting
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Development Management
Consultations
• ECS analysis of Setting is used to inform
Development Management consultations
• All applications in the immediate setting
• Major applications in the rest of the Buffer Zone
• Majority of minor cases “no impact”
• Saving in officer time, focus effort were an
impact is likely
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Salt Grammar redevelopment
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Previous building
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New building
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Visual Impact Assessment
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In use: Projects
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Saltaire Roundabout
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In use: long term management
• Fabric Survey – rapid
street-based assessment
of the authenticity and
condition of buildings
Informing
• Guidance to owners
• Enforcement action
• Long term conservation
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Future use: Management Plan Revision
1. Description the setting,
views, approaches
Environmental
Capacity Study
2. Evaluation values
identified in ECS plus others
3. Threats and
Opportunities
4. Policies for
management
5. Implementation and
Monitoring
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Full document and Executive
Summary online
www.bradford.gov.uk/ecs
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