Infilling Gap Sites in Key Frontages

Grants in this category are to encourage new build in key locations to an appropriate standard for a conservation area. New build will not be supported where it might adversely affect the use or occupation of historic buildings in the area.

It must be clear that buildings of an appropriate quality can be achieved only by subsidy combined with the use of planning powers.

The grant from the common fund should be limited to additional costs which arise directly from the planning and architectural requirements of development in a historic setting, when compared to the cost of comparable local development outside the conservation area.

The objective is to achieve an appropriately high standard of design and materials in an historic context. Normally, the eligible works will be the structural elements whose appearance will affect the character of the conservation area, whose quality the grant is intended to secure.

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