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Representation ID: 29121

Received: 29/03/2021

Respondent: Historic England

The site is within the Cathedral Precinct Conservation Area and adjacent to The Ring O’Bells Public House, a Grade II Listed Building. A number of other Listed Buildings are close to the site, including the Grade I Listed Cathedral Church of St Peter. The development of this area could harm elements which contribute to the significance of these designated heritage assets.
The principle of allocating this site, for the nature and scale of development set out in the APP, has been recently established as part of the Local Development Plan.
We would expect the Local Plan requirements for this site to, as a minimum, reflect those set out in the AAP. Consequently, we welcome that the Development Considerations and Constraints & Opportunities
identified for this site in the Draft Local Plan broadly reflect those in the AAP, taking account of the change in the site boundary.
If there have been any significant changes to the sites
circumstances since its allocation in the AAP that we are not aware of, or the development proposed is significantly different (e.g. in terms of land use, density, scale, developable area etc.), the Council should undertake a Heritage Impact Assessment of the site as part
of the Evidence Base to the emerging Local Plan.