Swale Borough Council

PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990

Notice is hereby given that Swale Borough Council, in pursuance of its powers under section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, has determined that the following areas, as more fully described in the Schedule to this notice, are areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance, and that the Council has accordingly designated them as conservation areas: (a) Faversham (b) Preston Next Faversham (c) Ospringe Designation has a number of effects, the principal ones of which are that: (i) Conservation area consent must be obtained from the Council before unlisted buildings (other than excepted buildings) within the conservation area are demolished. (ii) Six weeks’ notice must be given in writing to the Council before any tree is cut, topped, lopped, uprooted or otherwise subjected to works. There are exceptions to this requirement; for example trees which are covered by a Tree Preservation Order and trees which are dying, dead or dangerous are subject to separate procedures. (iii) Permitted development rights under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 as amended (which allow for certain alterations and extensions to properties and cetain other minor forms of development to take place without the need for planning permission) are more limited within conservation areas; for example, planning permission may be required for works consisting of or including the exterior cladding of buildings. (iv) In carrying out its functions under the Planning Acts the Council is required to pay special attention to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of the area. Full details of the effect of designation, and copies of the Council’s supplementary planning guidance booklet on “Conservation Areas”, can be obtained from the Planning and Building Control Services section of the Council at the address below. The existence of the Conservation Area referred to in the Schedule below will be revealed by Local Land Charge Searches against properties included in the areas. Definitive plans of the conservation areas showing the boundaries marked with a black line, which take precedence over the Schedule, may be inspected in the Planning and Building Control Services section of Swale Borough Council at the address given below during normal office hours. Copies of the plans will also be available for inspection at the Council’s District Office in Preston Street, Faversham. Copies of the plans have been deposited with the clerk to the Faversham Town Council, and a copy of the plan relating to Ospringe has been deposited with the clerk to Ospringe Parish Council. S J Bessant, Head of Development Services Swale Borough Council, Swale House, East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3HT. Schedule (a)  Faversham Conservation Area This conservation area embraces much of the town of Faversham. It replaces an earlier designation made in 1971 and which was later extended; the earlier designation, together with the subsequent extensions, is therefore cancelled. The following properties are now included: All properties in the following roads: Abbey Street; Lammas Gate; Abbey Road; The Maltings; Abbey Place (including the Faversham grammar school site and the adjoining Cooksditch stream); the footpath connecting Abbey Place with St Mary of Charity church; Church Street (including St Mary of Charity church and graveyard); Vicarage Street; Middle Row; Crescent Road (including the old fire station site); Garfield Place; Gange Mews, Brent Road; Front Brents (including areas of public open space); Faversham Reach; Waterside Close; Bridge Road; North Lane (including the Co-op supermarket); Partridge Lane (including a detached section of Water Lane); Conduit Street (including Mill Place and Town Quay); Quay Lane; Belvedere Road (including Nos 1 to 4 Standard Square); Belvedere Close; Market Place (including Back Lane, Hugh Place and Bedlington Square); and Court Street (including the former Whitbread brewery site). West Street; Water Lane; Market Street; Preston Street (north and south of the railway line and including the railway station car park and social club); Jacob Yard, Gatefield Lane; Dodds Lane; Solomons Lane; Thomas Road; Tanners Street (including Reeves Passage); Brent Hill, Priory Row (including the playing field to the south-west of Davington primary school); Davington Hill; Flood Lane; Priory Road (including Davington Priory and St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence’s church, but excluding Ivy House); Station Road (including the railway station); Beaumont Terrace; Newton Road; St Mary’s Road (including Stable Court and Elliots Place); St John’s Road (including Preston Malt House); Park Road; William Street; Chapel Street (including Nos 1 to 6 consecutive Preston Place); and Institute Road. South Road (including Manor Pound and the Faversham almshouses site); Albion Place, Stone Street; Cross Lane; Bank Street; Leslie Smith Drive (including the central car park, Faversham swimming pools and the Arden theatre); Union Street; Victoria Place; Dorset Place; Spillett Close; Hidden Meadows; Roman Road; Saxon Road; Runnymede Mews; Norman Road; Briton Road; Plantation Road; King’s Road; Cavour Road; Nightingale Road; Cambridge Road; St Ann’s Road; School Road; Queen’s Road; Capel Road; Napleton Road; Mendfield Street; Hatch Street; Beckett Street; Caslocke Street; and Fielding Street. East Street (including Nos 1 to 6 Queens Parade); Church Road; Orchard Place (including the St Mary of Charity infants and junior schools and the adjoining Cooksditch stream); Ospringe Place, Upper St Ann’s Road; The Mall; Nelson Street (including Nelson Terrace and Nelson Gardens); Edith Road; Preston Grove; Preston Lane (including St Catherine’s church, the graveyard and the Sunday School, but excluding No 34); and The Close. Properties as specified in the following roads:

Road	Properties
Upper Brents	The Old Vicarage; St John’s church and hall; Nos 1, 3 and 5; Brents Tavern public house; Nos 27 to 33 (odds); Nos 90 to 117 (consecutive); The Corner Shop; Willow Tap Cottage; Creek House; Nos 2 to 12 (evens); areas of public open space; and a former workshop situated opposite No 114, and garages adjoining to the north-east.
Abbeyfields	The Cardox works (including adjoining areas of grazing land to the north-west and north-east); an area of unused land situated to the south-west of the Cardox works with a frontage to Abbeyfields; Abbey House and the adjoining sewage pumping station.
Reedland Crescent	Ravenscourt Barn (east and west).
Whitstable Road	Mombasa; St Saviour’s church; Nos 1 to 22 (consecutive); Faversham recreation ground (including Recreation Lodge); the old railway embankment adjoining the south and east edges of Faversham recreation ground; and the railway goods station (including the former goods yard).
Cyprus Road	Church House.
Love Lane	Nos 1 and 2; Faversham cemetery (including the extension to the south-west, the cemetery chapel and lodge); and the bridge connecting Love Lane with Whitstable Road.
Forbes Road	The Queen’s Hall; public car park; Alldays Stores Ltd; and Delbridge garage.
Ospringe Road	Nos 1 to 8 (consecutive); Nos 10 to 108 (evens); Nos 1 to 5 (consecutive) Pettits Row; Nos 110 to 116 (evens); Nos 116 a and 116 b ; Nos 118 to 128 (evens); the railway bridge and associated land; Nos 9 to 45 (odds); No 45 a ; Nos 47 to 97 (odds); and No 99 (including the printing works).
Chart Close	Chart Gunpowder Mills and the Westbrook Stream between Stonebridge Way and West Street (including the associated amenity areas).
Nobel Court	Nos 9 to 19 (odds); and Nos 8 to 20 (evens).
London Road	King George V playing field; Nos 74 to 94 (evens); Nos 2 to 34 (evens); and Nos 1, 5 and 9.
Athelstan Road	No 130.
Kingsnorth Road	Nos 19 and 21.
Canterbury Road	Watershed Studio; Nos 1, 3 and 5; and Preston Court.
Ashford Road	Mindon; Nos 9 and 11, and the surrounding orchard with frontages to Ashford Road and Canterbury Road.

All properties at: Abbey farm, including farmland adjoining to the north and north-east, land adjoining to the south-east (with a frontage to Abbeyfields), and a grazing field adjoining to the west (with a frontage to Abbey Road); an area of land to the east of Nos 58 to 62 Abbey Street; Standard Quay; Chambers Wharf; and Iron Wharf (including the dock along the eastern edge); Stonebridge Pond (including the allotments); railway land to the east of Faversham station (including a disused engine shed adjoining the main railway line and a smaller railway shed to the north-east); railway land between St Ann’s Road and Ospringe Road; grazing land situated beyond Waterside Close to the north-east and fronting Faversham creek; and Faversham creek upstream of the sewage works. (b)  Preston Next Faversham conservation area This conservation area embraces a small group of buildings at Preston (near to the junction of Canterbury Road with Salters Lane). This new conservation area replaces an earlier designation made in 1976; the earlier designation is therefore cancelled. The following are now included: Properties as specified in the following roads:

Road	Properties
Canterbury Road	The Cherry Tree; Nos 1, 2 and 3 Cherry Tree Cottages (including the building adjoining No 3 to the east); The Windmill public house; Nos 1, 2 and 3 Pile Cottages; Nos 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages; and land to the east of Thatched Cottages associated with the former lime pit.
Preston Lane	Nos 1 and 2 Ivy Cottages.
Salters Lane	Mill House; Mill Cottage; and land with trees extending south from Canterbury Road forming the western edge to Faversham football ground.

(c)  Ospringe conservation area This conservation area embraces most of the settlement of Ospringe. This new conservation area replaces an earlier designation made in 1982; the earlier designation is therefore cancelled. The following are now included: Properties as specified in the following roads:

Road	Properties
London Road	The Mount (including the associated land).
Ospringe Street	Land used for car sales adjoining The Mount; Nos 2 to 10 (evens); The Ship Inn (No 12); Nos 20 to 22 (including the associated yard and buildings); Nos 24, 26 and 28; a disused yard adjoining No 28 (extending through to Grove Place); Nos 30 and 32; Nos 5 to 12 Lion Yard (consecutive); Nos 36 to 62 (evens); Nos 1 to 13 (odds); No 13 a ; No 15; No 17 (Maison Dieu); Nos 19 to 31; the former Anchor public house (including the walled garden); and Nos 35 to 67 (odds).
The Fairways	Nos 1 to 12 (consecutive).
Sheerways	Public open space at the rear of Nos 32 to 48 Ospringe Street.
Grove Close	An area of amenity land forming part of Waterstone Place.
Water Lane	Nos 1, 2 and 3; Holly Cottage; Queen Court Farm including barns and other farm buildings, and associated land within an area bounded by Water Lane, Mutton Lane and Vicarage Lane; areas of farmland to the south and west of Vicarage Lane extending south to The Old Vicarage; the bier house; The Old Vicarage including the stables and coach house; the water pumping station; land known as Long Meadow Wood (to the south of the pumping station); Nos 4 to 11 (consecutive); Nos 15 to 20 (consecutive); Ashdown; Orchard House; Nos 1 and 2 Tudor Cottage; Bridge Cottage; Fern Lodge; Nos 46, 48 and 50; Ospringe Church of England primary school (including School House and the playing field); allotments to the west and south-west of the primary school (including a strip of grazing land); Miller’s House, Arbory; Nos 1 and 2 Thatch Cottage; Nos 1 to 8 (consecutive) Dawsons Row; farmland fronting Water Lane between No 1 Dawsons Row and Queen Court Barn; Nos 1 and 2 Queen Court Barn; farmland fronting Water Lane between Queen Court Barn and St Peter and St Paul’s church; and St Peter and St Paul’s church (including the churchyard).
Mutton Lane	The pallet repair works; Laurel Cottage; land with trees fronting the east side of Mutton Lane to the north of Mount View; Nos 1 to 8 Mount View (consecutive); Nos 1 and 2 Queen Court Cottages; and a former oast building (at the junction with Vicarage Lane).