Notice is given under the provisions of the 1990 Act that Gedling Borough Council has determined, following the adoption of a Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan that the Bestwood Village Conservation Area (originally designated 1992) shall be extended to include the area described below in the Schedule to this notice. This area is deemed to be of, or make important contributions to the setting of, areas of special architectural or historic interest. It is therefore desirable that their character and appearance is preserved or enhanced.

A number of areas as set out in the Schedule below are to be excluded and which are unnecessarily included within the Conservation Area or have changed so that their character and appearance is no longer of sufficient special architectural and/or historic interest to warrant continued inclusion within the Conservation Area.

The principal effects of these areas being included within a Conservation Area are:

1) The Council is under a duty to prepare proposals to ensure the preservation or enhancement of the area.

2) Consent must be obtained from the Council for the demolition of any building in the area.

3) Six weeks’ notice must be given to the Council before works are carried out to any tree in the area.

4) Special publicity must be given to planning applications for development in the area.

5) In carrying out any functions under the Planning Acts the Council and Secretary of State are required to take into account the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of the area.

Copies of the Bestwood Village Conservation Area Appraisal (November 2020), including maps of the boundary revisions will be available online or viewed by appointment at the following location:

• https://www.gedling.gov.uk/conservation/

• Civic Centre, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 6LU - Monday to Thursday 8 am to 5.15 pm, and Friday 8.00 am to 4.45 pm. (due to COVID 19 restrictions this is by appointment only using the contact details below).

Contact Gedling Borough Council Planning Policy for further information:

E-mail: PlanningPolicy@gedling.gov.uk

Telephone: 0115 901 3733

Post: Planning Policy, Civic Centre, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 6LU.

Land now included in the Conservation Area includes

Bestwood Village Sports Ground off High Main Drive

Areas excluded are:

Land between Mayes Rise and School Walk including properties at:

1 – 29 (inclusive) Mayes Rise; numbers: 46,50, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63 and 65 Beeston Close; Hawthorne Nursing Home; part Hawthorne Primary and Nursery School buildings and site; and Mayes Rise Flats, Mayes Rise.

Land between Park Road and Broad Valley Drive, east of rear garden plots to housing on St Alban’s Road. Also to remove the car park at the entrance to Bestwood Country Park. Includes properties 59 to 97 (inclusive) Park Road.

Strip of land fronting Moor Road lying between the road and Bestwood Business Park and the Sports Ground running from the footbridge on Moor Road and up to but not including the residential curtilage of the “Oaks” including properties 555 and 557 Moor Road; 2- 24 Lacewood Close; and the Sycamores, Moor Road.

Land between Moor Road, School Walk and Church Road, including properties 2 – 8 (inclusive) School Walk, Community Centre, Bestwood Village Hall Carpark.