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NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

This Planning Policy Statement, PPS23 formalises policy established in case law where established planning policy may be set aside for a proposal to secure the long-term future of a significant place.

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

For the purposes of this PPS, 'significant place' means any part of the historic environment that has heritage value including scheduled monuments, archaeological remains, historic buildings (both sta

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

This PPS is accompanied by detailed Best Practice Guidance that will be taken into account in assessing all instances of enabling development.

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

This Planning Policy Statement, PPS 23 puts in place policy for assessing proposals for enabling development for the conservation of significant places. The PPS has been subjected to an equality impac

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NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

'Enabling development' is a development proposal that is contrary to established planning policy and in its own right would not be permitted. Such a proposal may however be allowed where it will secur

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Enabling development typically seeks to subsidise the cost of maintenance, major repair or conversion to the optimum use of a significant place where this is greater than its value to its owner or mar

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The justification for allowing the enabling development lies in the over-riding public benefit to be derived from the implementation of the principal proposal which otherwise would have little prospec

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The intention is to facilitate development projects in tune with the spirit of the Spatial Development Strategy for the Region. This approach should enable the private sector to present a significant

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The RDS recognises the contribution that the Region's built heritage assets make to our sense of place and history and their importance as a resource for tourism and recreation. Policy RG11 identifies

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The RDS recognises that the implementation of the Strategy depends on investment by the public and private sectors and given the heavy competing pressures on public expenditure, new approaches to the

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The objective of this Planning Policy Statement is to provide the flexibility to accommodate unforeseen imaginative proposals for the maintenance, major repair or conversion to the viable use of a sig

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

In exercise of its responsibility for development management in Northern Ireland, the planning authority will assess development proposals against all planning policies and other material consideratio

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Proposals involving enabling development relating to the re-use, restoration or refurbishment of significant places will only be permitted where it can be demonstrated by the applicant in the submissi

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The Best Practice Guidance 'Assessing Enabling Development' accompanying this PPS will be taken into account in considering proposals. In considering enabling development proposals developers are enco

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

For the purposes of this PPS, 'significant place' means any part of the historic environment that has heritage value including scheduled

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

It is intended that this policy will only be used as a last resort where the long-term public benefit of securing a significant place decisively outweighs the disadvantages of departing from normal po

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Enabling development will often be located close to the principal development. In some instances, however, it may be more appropriate for the enabling development to be located elsewhere, as long as c

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Developers are encouraged to enter into pre-application discussions with the planning authority: to assess the impact of the enabling element of the proposed development; to establish the level of det

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

In some instances, planning conditions attached to a permission will be sufficient to ensure that the public benefits are delivered. In other, more complex cases, and where there is a need to secure t

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Applications incorporating enabling development should be accompanied by a Statement of Justification. This statement should include sufficient, detailed financial information as is necessary to allow

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

The information supplied by the developer should cover all the financial aspects of the proposed enabling development, in a sufficient degree of detail to enable scrutiny and validation by the plannin

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Enabling development must always be justified by the inherent lack of viability of the heritage asset, not an owner's inability to fund a commercially viable scheme.

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Before purchasing a site, a developer will typically undertake an appraisal to determine the appropriate purchase price that will provide the desired capital return upon their investment. In some case

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Since this financial assessment is central to the question of whether enabling development is required, failure by the applicant to provide such information may result in refusal of planning permissio

NI-wide·PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places

Planning policies will not be departed from for only short-term or temporary public gains. The Statement of Justification will demonstrate that the benefits to be derived from the principal proposal s