Policy DM 35: Enabling Development - Criteria

The Council will only support Enabling Development in exceptional circumstances and where it is demonstrated through a Statement of Justification that all of the following criteria are met: (a) The public benefit of securing the future of an important heritage asset through Enabling Development decisively outweighs the disbenefits of departing from the normal policy presumption; (b) The Enabling Development is the only means of funding works to secure the long-term use of the important heritage asset, through restoration, conservation or repair; (c) The Enabling Development does not materially harm the important heritage asset or its setting nor result in detrimental fragmentation of the management of the asset; (d) The Enabling Development is in the vicinity of the important heritage asset, the reuse of which it will enable;