Issue - items at meetings - Designation of new and extended Conservation Areas

Report of the Director of Environment (copy attached).

1.     That the proposed Carlton Hill conservation area, as set out at Appendix 2, be approved and formally designated and the Character Statement for the area be adopted.

2.     That the proposed extension of the Tongdean Avenue/Road conservation area, to include properties in Dyke Road Avenue as set out in Appendix 3, be approved and formally designated.

3.     That the extended Tongdean Avenue/Road conservation area be renamed Tongdean and the revised Character Statement for the area be adopted.

33.1       The Cabinet Member considered a report of the Director of Environment concerning the designation of a new conservation area in Carlton Hill and an extension to the existing conservation area in Tongdean (for copy see minute book).

33.2       The Cabinet Member stated that the report set out the results of the public consultation on the proposals for a new conservation area at Carlton Hill in Brighton, and an extension to the existing Tongdean Avenue/Road conservation area which would include properties in Dyke Road Avenue. The results of the consultation had been broadly supportive.  Some amendments had been made to the draft Character Statements to address concerns, and a minor amendment had been made to the proposed boundary of the extended area in Tongdean. The Cabinet Member stated that it was considered that the proposed new and extended areas met the criteria for a conservation area, as set out in the council’s adopted Conservation Strategy, and that they also accorded with Government guidance on the designation of new conservation areas.

33.3       RESOLVED – That having considered the information and the reasons set out in the report, the Cabinet Member accepted the following recommendations:

(1)       That the proposed Carlton Hill conservation area, as set out at Appendix 2, be approved and formally designated and the Character Statement for the area be adopted.

(2)       That the proposed extension of the Tongdean Avenue/Road conservation area, to include properties in Dyke Road Avenue as set out in Appendix 3, be approved and formally designated.

(3)       That the extended Tongdean Avenue/Road conservation area be renamed Tongdean and the revised Character Statement for the area be adopted.