Angus Council

NOTICE OF REMOVAL OF EXISTING MONTROSE CONSERVATION AREA AND SIMULTANEOUS RE-DESIGNATION OF A NEW MONTROSE CONSERVATION AREA

PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

Notice is hereby given that Angus Council has designated the Montrose Conservation Area for the purpose of Section 61 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997. The designation has the effect of varying the areas covered by the former Conservation Area.

A plan of the Montrose Conservation Areas being removed and simultaneously re-designated is available for public inspection from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm at Planning & Transport, County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar, DD8 3LG.

In both cases the extent of the Conservation Area being deleted and also re-designated may be seen by inspecting the said plan, but as general guidance the following lie within the Conservation Area: Academy Square, Alfred Street, Balmain Court, Baltic Square, Baltic Street, Basin View, Bents Road, Blackfriars Street, Bow Butts, Bridge Street, Caledonia Street, Carnegie Street, Castle Place, Castle Street, Chapel Place, Chapel Street, Christie’s Lane, Churchyard Walk, Commerce Street, Dorward Gardens, Dorward House Gardens, Dorward Place, Dorward Road, Eastern Road, Erskine Place, Erskine Street, Ferry Street, Frank Wood Way, Frasers Lane, George Street, Gibson Place, Graham Street, High Street, Hill Street, Hudson Square, Hume Street, India Lane, India Street, John Street, Kincardine Street, King Street, Links Avenue, Lower Craigo Street, Lower Hall Street, Mall Park Avenue, Market Street, Melville Gardens, Melville Road, Meridian Street, Mill Road, Mill Square, Mill Street, Milnamair, Montrose Inner Relief Road, Mount Road, Murray Lane, Murray Street, Museum Street, New Bridge, New Wynd, North Esk Road, North Street, Orange Lane, Palmerston Place, Panmure Row, Panmure Street, Panmure Terrace, Park Close, Paton’s Lane, Provost Scott’s Road, Queen Street, Queens Close, Railway Close, Railway Place, Redfield Crescent, Redfield Road, Reform Street, Review Close, Rosehill Road, Russell Street, Seagate, South Esk Street, St Marys Road, St Peters Place, St Peters Road, Swapps Close, The Mall, Traill Drive, Union Place, Union Road, Union Street, Upper Craigo Street, Upper Hall Street, Victoria Street, Warrack Terrace, Wellington Gardens, Wellington Park, Wellington, Place, Wellington Street, Wharf Street, Whinfield Road, Whites Place, Williams Philips Drive, William Rodger Drive.

Subject to the provisions of Section 67 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 no building in a Conservation Area may be demolished without the consent of the Planning Authority. Subject to the provisions of Sections 172 and 173 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 anyone proposing to do work on trees in a Conservation Area is required to give the Planning Authority six weeks notice of their intentions before the work is carried out.

The existing Article 4 Direction which brings development that is classed as Permitted Development under the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992, as amended (the 1992 Order), within planning control will remain in place. The Direction brings Classes 1, 7 and 8 of the 1992 Order within planning control.

A range of alterations are controlled in conservation areas. These include replacement windows, driveways and work to roof finishes. It is also the duty of the Council to pay special attention to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of the Conservation Area when dealing with planning applications.

George Chree, Head of Planning & Transport, County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar, DD8 3LG

1 July 2011.