Conservation area number 4: Old Portsmouth

Direction under Article 4(2) of General Permitted Development Order 1995 restricting Permitted Development

1. Portsmouth City Council (‘the Council’) is the local planning authority in respect of the land referred to in the First Schedule to this Direction.

2.The Council is satisfied that it is expedient that the development described in Schedule 2 to the General Permitted Development Order 1995 (‘the Order’) and specified in the Second Schedule to this Direction should not be carried out unless permission is granted for it on an application.

3. The Council is further satisfied that development as specified in the Second Schedule to this Direction would constitute a threat to the amenities of the area.

Now therefore the Council in pursuance of Article 4(2) of the Order and all other powers thereby enabling

Directs that

1. The permission granted by Article 3 of the Order shall not apply to development specified in the Second Schedule to this Direction in respect of the land specified in the First Schedule to this Direction (‘the Land’).

2. Pursuant to Articles 4(2) and 6 of the Order, this Direction does not require the approval of the Secretary of State because it relates to certain categories of permitted development rights in a conservation area.

3. This Direction shall, in accordance with Article 6(7) of the Order remain in force for a period of six months and will then expire unless it has been approved by the Council before that date.

4. This Direction shall, in accordance with Article 6(3) of the Order, come into force in respect of the Land on the date on which the Notice of the making of the Direction is served on the occupier of the Land, or if there is no occupier, the owner. However if the Council considers that individual service on the owners and occupiers is impracticable because the number of them makes service impracticable or because it is difficult to identify or locate one more of them in accordance with Articles 6 (1)(a) and 6 (3)(b) the Direction shall come into effect on the date when the Notice is first published in a local newspaper.

The Land

All those properties shown hatched black on the map attached hereto being in Old Portsmouth and more particularly described as:-

Bath Square 3a, 3b, 5-9, 13-19, 23, 27, 29
Broad Street 4-8a, 4 (rear), 17-21, 25-33, 43, 49, 51, 57
Tower Street 1-3, Tideways, Capstan House
West Street 2, 16, Boom Tower

All references are to the General Permitted Development Order 1995 (‘the Order’)

1. The replacement of windows and doors on front elevations (Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

2. The removal / alteration of chimney stacks (Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

3. Alterations to canopies and other architectural details on front elevations (Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

4. The replacement of the roof cladding on the main elevation fronting a highway (Class C of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

5. The alteration or demolition of front boundary walls / gates / railings (Class A of Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Order and Class B of Part 31 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

The painting of any previously unpainted external brickwork or other external wall surfaces of any building on the main elevation fronting a highway (Class C of Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

Given under the common seal of Portsmouth City Council

this 26 day of June 2008

Seal Registry No. 70147

Authorised signatory

Notice of confirmation of Direction under Article 4(2) of General Permitted Development Order 1995

NOTICE IS GIVEN that Portsmouth City Council (“the Council”) has confirmed a Direction under Article 4(2) of the General Permitted Development Order 1995. The Direction was made by the Council on 3rd August 2006 and confirmed by the Council on 2nd October 2006.

The Direction applies to:

1. The replacement of windows and doors on front elevations (Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).
2. The removal / alteration of chimney stacks (Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order and Class A of Part 31 of Schedule 2 of the Order).
3. Alterations to canopies and other architectural details on front elevations (Class A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).
4. The replacement of the roof cladding on the main elevation fronting a highway (Class C of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Order).
5. The alteration or demolition of front boundary walls/gates/railings (Class A of Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Order and Class B of Part 31 of Schedule 2 of the Order).
6. The painting of any previously unpainted external brickwork or other external wall surfaces of any building (Class C of Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Order).

In:

• Battery Row: 1, 2, 3
• High Street: 49-50, 64, 69
• Highbury Street: 4a, 6
• Lombard Street: 4, 6, 8, 10, 21, 23, 25
• Peacock Lane: 2, 2a, 2b, 4, 6
• Pembroke Road: Williamsgate, 18
• Penny Street: 29, 60
• St. Nicholas Street: 10, 12
• St. Thomas’s Street: 33, 43

The EFFECT of the Direction is that the permission granted by article 3 of the General Permitted Development Order 1995 shall not apply to such development and such development shall not be carried out within that area unless planning permission is granted by the Council.

Dated: 2nd October 2006

Signed: L. Spenel

Duly authorised officer of the Council