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Representation ID: 29393

Received: 29/03/2021

Respondent: Historic England

The site is close to the Grade II listed Whinburn Lodge & ancillary listings and the Grade II Whinburn Registered Park and Garden. The garden is included on the Heritage at Risk Register. The development of this area could harm elements which contribute to the significance of these designated heritage assets. The Heritage Impact Assessment for this site, which includes land to the south-west of the allocated site, considered that mitigation measures are likely to be less effective in the south-western quarter of the site where the steeply sloping topography is likely to mean any development is highly visible. The HIA concluded that with appropriate mitigation, the lower sections of the site (which includes the area allocated in the Draft Plan) are likely to result in
less than substantial harm (of an acceptable level).
Historic England would concur with this analysis and with the assessment of the degree of harm that the development of this site would be likely to cause. Historic England would also endorse the removal of the area of land identified as being of medium sensitivity in the HIA from the allocated site, and the mitigation measures
which have been put forward in the Heritage Impact Assessment.
We consider that these are likely to be effective in reducing the harm to the level indicated. Historic England welcome the requirement for a Heritage Impact
Assessment to be prepared in support of any planning application on this site.