12. Article 4 Directions and Locally Listed Buildings Article 4 Directions
Local List
Article 4 Directions are used to control permitted development (development that does not require planning permission – permitted through the General Permitted Development Order) for properties that retain permitted development rights. The existing Article 4 Direction (Figure 24) requires that planning permission must be sought to make changes to, for example, windows, doors or roofs, to paint unpainted facades or certain types of cladding and to alter or demolish a boundary wall on frontages of dwelling houses that face a highway, footpath or public open space. However, the existing Direction would benefit from a review given the time since first served and the changes that have taken place within the General Permitted Development Order and the conservation area.
Locally listed buildings are not protected in the same manner as nationally listed buildings, but they are a ‘material consideration’ in the planning process meaning the Local Planning Authority must consider the impact of any proposed development on a locally listed building. The conservation area only has one locally listed building (the War Memorial on the Esplanade which since inclusion on the local list has been designated a grade II listed building), and so a review of the buildings within the conservation area for nominations to the local list should be undertaken. Local communities can assist with this work.
Figure 24 - Existing Article 4 Direction areas.
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