Conservation Area Review

Conservation areas are created where a local planning authority identifies an area of special architectural or historic interest, deserving of careful management to protect its character.

They are quite rare. North Thoresby’s CA was created in 1991.

East Lindsey District Council has commissioned Irving Patrick Consultancy to review our Conservation area and I have been approached to provide a historical background for the review. 

The review team have been given copies of the 4 booklets the History Society has produced, and I have walked John Patrick

around the village. The team will come here again on July 16 th for more discussion before a public meeting in the Village Hall, 19.30 on Wednesday 22nd July.

Extensive public consultation is part of the process and a further consultation period will follow into the winter.

For the History Society and its members, the process has great potential because part of the review process includes the creation of conservation area appraisal. These documents give an overview of the history and development of each CA, defining what it is that makes it special. The existing boundaries of the Conservation Area to be rather illogical (see map in the documents provided) and re-drawing them may well be a potential consideration of the review.

Aimed at preserving our historical heritage, a Conservation Area has potentially extensive planning permission implications for buildings within the area. To provide background material for residents and other interested parties, I’ve put together three documents which explain:

a. the review process

b. outline the importance of protecting our history

c. comprehensively explain the planning implications.

You can download these documents below: