DERBYSHIRE DALES DISTRICT COUNCIL

Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)
Act 1990, Part II, Sections 69 and 70

Notice is hereby given of the designation of a Conservation Area in Kniveton, Derbyshire

The area comprises at its most northern point the School House, School and Village Hall and thence south to include all properties fronting the main village street to its junction with Foxholes Lane. Frontage properties down Foxholes Lane to the bridge and the field between the lane and stream are included together with properties along the lane to the east to the Methodist Chapel and to the west up St. James Lane to St. James Lane Farm. In addition fields to the north-west of the village and opposite the Red Lion Public House are included for the archaelogical evidence of a shrunken medieval settlement and ridge and furrow within them.
  Listed buildings within the area include St. Michael’s Church at the northern end of the village, several C17 former farmhouses and the Old Hall at the southern end and two methodist chapels.
  Three fields are included in the Derbyshire County Council’s Sites and Monuments Register and the village pump is a County Treasure.
  The effects of designation broadly comprises:

  New development to preserve or enhance the character and appearance of the Conservation Area or at least not detract from it;
  The Local Planning Authority to consider enhancement schemes for the area and to grant aid the same;
  Six weeks notice to be given of works to trees;
  Consent is generally required to demolish any building;
  Planning permission is needed for most extensions, satellite dishes on elevations fronting highways and changes to roofs.

  A copy of the plan may be viewed either at the Compton Offices, Ashbourne or the Town Hall, Matlock between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday.
A. R. Yarwood, Head of Planning Services Town Hall, Bank Road,
  Matlock, Derbyshire.
10th March 1998.