Local plan scoping consultation

1. Design Codes based on TVA should be utilised in preference to Design Guides
2. LAs should establish recurring partnerships with key Consultation Bodies, such as
Create Streets and The King’s Foundation, etc who specialise in getting through to a
huge swathe of grassroots members of the public with tried and tested previous
experience in Local Plans, such as Lichfield, etc.
3. Non-demolition of historic buildings prior to the 1950s must be made policy or
adhered to as part of LCC’s commitment to combatting the Climate Crisis through
sequestering carbon in its Old Builds.
4. LAs should adopt a Local List of Valued Buildings (Non-designated Heritage Assets),
which have been a Government requirement since the policy introduction through
the NPPF in 2012. Historic England produced a guide to help Councils in May 2012.
Bristol produced an exemplar list in 2015, which is well worth reviewing.
5. Existing Action Plan if present for Designated and Non-designated Heritage Assets
needs identifying and/ or establishing (I may support this if invited).
6. Option for people to provide feedback even if out of time for additional documents,
such as SPDs or at the discretion of Councils where feedback may be particularly
assistive or lead to additional academic and architect guidance. Option for public
publishing of feedback should be encouraged with the consultee’s consent to
encourage wider consultation uptake moving forwards.
7. Era-style Buildings, especially rows of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian
architecture must be faithfully restored, retained and recreated to complement
surrounding historic streets that may or may not be classed in official Conservation
Areas preventing harsh contrast with newer built housing estates from the 1950s
onwards.
8. Where demolition is proposed for 1950s style housing onwards- any new
construction must be in the historic building style and local materials to ensure high
carbon capacity, quality aesthetic and true blending of the interconnected
conurbations of any one area, place or location.
9. Concerted efforts to identify and locate core suppliers for raw materials and specific
heritage skills should encourage new uptake of these limited artisan craft skills by
new contractors locally based to support the local economy, provide employment,
and reduce the cost of product and service in the long-term.
10. Volunteer labouring assemblies should be fully encouraged and supported
identifying key individual an group skillsets that can be utilised to protect historic
buildings or areas at risk with a view to supporting the construction of new authentic
style housing (as and where appropriate) and the reconstruction of demolished prized old buildings beloved by the community, such as community pubs, libraries
and community centres.
11. Simplified streamlined Planning Process for key stakeholders either working to
authentically restore buildings and/ or build new ones, such as observed with many
civic buildings in Budapest Hungary and the Federal University Buildings in the US.
12. Where there have been evolving building styles over years, eg. Combination of one
or more: Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian, the style that best promotes the area,
ie. One that has the majority era structures left or capacity size requirements as
examples should be utilised by house builders, especially where a streetscape may
have been annihilated during the World Wars.

TA should be fully acknowledged and harnessed to provide universal advantages to all key stakeholders such as existing and new residents and businesses notwithstanding the LA itself.

My PDF Umbrella Representation contains many theme and topics that overlap and will greatly assist the Local Plan process.

The greater the support for both the built historic environment and the new historic environment the greater the potential or Cheshire East be it through targeting grant funding applications for key infrastructure needs and/ or the core requirements to make this area thrive. TA is the biggest USP of the area.

1. Enhancement of Historic Areas to remove modern street furniture with the
integration of classical style timepieces should be encouraged and pursued wherever
possible with clear preferred guides set out for each part of the City.
2. Enhancement of Setting with funding grants and financial incentives from all tiers of
Government for Private Investors especially those contributing actively towards
achieving Net Zero through Embodied Energy/ Carbon Capacity rich measures, i.e.
Retention of Old Builds.
3. Archive Pooling of invaluable source material, such as Historic Photographs, Oil
Paintings, such as “Memory Lane” featured on InYourArea Magazine to enrich
existing material archives.
4. New officialising of Non-Designated Heritage Assets must be actively supported even
if informed by the (wider) community thereby providing some possibility of
removing these from risk of demolition.
5. Incentives must be provided to those dependable sincere third party investors that
take on, maintain and protect said sites against their annihilation from the
streetscape with rescue-packages actively promoted and supported once again with
a trusted Directory creating goodwill amongst the local community.
6. Opportunity to meet or correspond on Zoom Conference Call regarding key areas,
buildings and places at risk where key stakeholders, such as property owners may be
better placed to engage in positive and constructive discussion through third parties,
such as myself and a trusted panel of experts in their fields and sectors who could
enable these people and organisations to maximise their civic heritage, whilst
proactively striving to protect more historic buildings from decline and/ or
demolition where a strategy package for raising the revenue to do this could be
arranged and facilitated.
7. Defining Character Areas- zoning symmetrical parallel construction recommended
where distinctive individualised properties remain as checked against authentic
archive blueprints. This will ensure high-quality housing for everyone reducing the societal divides between misperceived “good areas” where affluent people reside in
historical style properties and less advantaged reside in contemporary ones.
8. Industry should be conserved at former industrial complexes, such as Economic
Docks with equivalent sites offering modern-day uses, alongside traditional uses
such as export and import of raw materials at places such as Docks and Port
encompassing: ICT sector, Green Research & Development, etc.
9. Every effort must be made to reach out to Property Owners, especially
Housebuilders that are pursuing demolition of long-beloved buildings, especially
those with demonstrable evidence of Holy Worship.
10. Every effort must be made to reach out to Property Owners, especially
Housebuilders that are pursuing demolition of landmark buildings, especially those
with key links to an area’s founding or history locally.
11. All Powers to monitor, collaborate with existing and/ or new property owners to
conserve these buildings should become mandatory with appointed Community
Champions for Civic Heritage that area direct link between Local Authorities and said
wider key stakeholders to prevent demolition of structures that may be at risk of
destruction from vandalism, urban exploration and demolition.
12. Reconstruction Programme harnessing existing limited crafts people’s skillsets to be
used as a fundraising vehicle to bring back buildings that may have been demolished
to dissuade future demolition as a choice by property owners and by means of
expanding these otherwise lost skillsets that are at live risk of becoming extinct from
the UK.
13. Checklist of buildings at high risk must be expanded beyond the existing groups and
organisations that are saturated with high caseloads, such as SAVE Britain’s Heritage,
etc so that dialogue channels can be created and fostered between Community
Champions for Civic Heritage.
14. Bespoke-tailored funding packages for Properties at Risk of decline or demolition
should be integrated with Local, Regional and Central Government-funding as a
means of regional economic output through the return on investment that may
support other key grant funding capital infrastructure projects, such as
transportation and drainage improvements.

Full support must be given to authentic existing and prospective Commercial Civic Restorers (CCRs) with a view to attracting actual development that will enable high quality period style filming opportunities, be reliable means of new infrastructure in itself without quickly dating and/ or attracting ASB through perceived outlooks on newer CAD Analysis style buildings.

Authentic TA will greatly mitigate concerns held amongst all key stakeholders be they existing residents and businesses or their parallel new equivalents coming into the area.

1. Alterations for Listed Building Consent must be simplified with additional
streamlined testing methodologies, such as proof of legitimate third party support,
such as correspondence chains between applicant and Groups, such as The Victorian
Society that can assist LAs complete workload much sooner allowing more attention
for challenging cases, such as Non-Designated Heritage Assets at live or upcoming
risk of demolition by Housebuilders, etc.
2. Highways & Street Furniture should be duly supported across the whole of an area to
enhance its historic appeal to the commercial community as much to its indigenous
community; as this is supported greatly in equivalent Public Realm Strategy SPDs-
where any and all guidance and support must and should be provided, with key at
risk projects being an exceptional anecdote that may be cited in future documents or
versions of this and other consultations to stimulate economic construction and
restoration across other designated Conservation Areas, etc or otherwise.
3. Provide incentives for the return of lost adornments and decorative features, such as
roof fixtures like Chimney Stacks once again with an approved contractor directory
to make Old Builds practical to own, live and work in the 2020s onwards. If a
Directory cannot be provided then specific wording and guides on esoteric
restoration and new traditional building styles that would see modern-day use of
decorative features must be provided by the Local Council.
4. Permissions for authentic replica and more durable materials, such as reproduction
sash windows must be supported to prevent exorbitant high costs through procuring
these, limited longevity and economic climates being unstable. This must be
assessed on a case by case basis.
5. No more deliberate manipulation and selective misinterpretation of using
contemporary modern designs using old-style fabric raw materials, such as stone
cladding for new housing where the design and shape clearly undermine the concept
of blending within or around a Conservation Area.
6. Compendium of approved and recognised TVA Architects based across the UK with a
view to supporting the training in time of more Northern counterparts to reduce cost
associated with travel expenses, etc. This will actively reduce the level of demolition
applications countering the purpose of this SPD and other live Policy. If a Directory
cannot be provided then specific wording and guides on esoteric restoration and
new traditional building styles that would see modern-day use of decorative features
must be provided by the Local Council.
7. New Conservation Areas should be established covering areas of surviving built
historic environment to positively reverse fascia changes to more modern ones.
8. Blue Plaques should be fully supported across as many different Conurbations,
especially if Applicants reach out for endorsements.
9. Discretionary Rate Relief should be provided to those proactively support LAs with
conserving their respective Conservation Areas through their own resources, skillsets
and time as an incentive to others to work alongside the Council positively and
constructively.
10. Where long-lost prized buildings are reconstructed whether based in a Conservation
Area or not this should confer discretionary financial support, e.g. Rate Relief for the
length of time taken to produce this outcome acknowledging the embodied carbon
now contributing positively towards the LA’s Climate Change Action Plan Targets.
11. Retention of historic street furniture, such as Lamp Posts adorning high streets or
Promenade style streetscapes with collaborate fundraising models utilised from key
stakeholders, such as property owners, undisclosed third party investors, Residents’
Groups, etc.
12. Retention of historic street furniture, such as Lamp Posts adorning high streets or
Promenade style streetscapes with authentic identical reproductions permitted
where all options to secure finance have been fully exhausted and/or the existing
streetscape is at imminent risk of receiving contemporary replacement street
furniture on health and safety grounds, eg. Lap Posts.

Authentic TA will mitigate so many concerns especially those regarding en masse housing quotas.

The fullest support must be given to ensure each community can live in a mutually respectful and supportive manner with TA aided as much as possible.