{"id":19800,"date":"2018-08-07T17:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19800"},"modified":"2018-08-07T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:59:21","slug":"council-defeats-high-court-challenge-by-he-to-milton-keynes-council-over-historic-railway-yard-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19800","title":{"rendered":"Council defeats High Court challenge by HE to Milton Keynes Council over historic railway yard development"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"<\/a>Historic England (HE) has failed in a challenge to Milton Keynes Council over its decision to allow a development on part of a historic railway yard.<\/h3>\n

<\/p>\n

Local Government Lawyer<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/u><\/p>\n

Historic England challenged Milton Keynes\u2019 decision to allow developer St Modwen to demolish unlisted buildings to build 375 homes. It said the extensive demolition involved would entail substantial harm to the significance of the conservation area and that Milton Keynes\u2019 own conservation and archaeology manager had expressed similar views. Objections also came from the Ancient Monuments Society, Save Britain’s Heritage and the Victorian Society.<\/p>\n

But ruling in Historic Buildings And Monuments Commission for England, R (On the Application Of) v Milton Keynes Council [2018] EWHC 2007, Dove J said the officer\u2019s report which recommended acceptance had been properly compiled and Historic England had not suffered any prejudice. He went on to dismiss arguments that Milton Keynes had been wrong in its assessment of what constituted an area\u2019s historic character.<\/p>\n

The Judge said: \u2018In my view it is clear that the phrase \u2018character or appearance\u2019 is not confined simply to the historic built fabric of the area. Whilst undoubtedly that historic built fabric will be integral to the \u2018appearance\u2019 of the area, it is important to note that the statutory test is quite deliberately not confined to simply visual matters. The inclusion of the area’s \u2018character\u2019 clearly broadens the range of qualities which can be relevant to the evaluative judgment, and in my view plainly incorporates within the test matters such as historic uses and the contributions which they make to the character of the area by influencing the understanding of that area and reflecting experiences that are not simply visual.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Nothing in statute said the built fabric should be regarded as pre-eminent over other dimensions of the historic interest of the area such as the uses that historically have taken place within it\u2019, the judge said.<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n

For more background see the IHBC NewsBlog<\/a> and BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historic England (HE) has failed in a challenge to Milton Keynes Council over its decision to allow a development on part of a historic railway yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19802,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions\/19802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}