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Contact
For further information, please contact the following
staff (or click on the contact name for further details):
Lisa Taylor, Office Manager
Telephone: 01733 568408
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National
Green Apple Awards for
Environmental Best Practice 2004
NATIONAL GOLD WINNER
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The Peterborough Built Environment Audit
The audit covers aspects such as the use, age, size and condition
of buildings; building materials; the presence and nature of
fences, walls and hedges; the number and location of trees;
and an assessment of townscape value. It also extends to cover
areas such as legal protections (eg listed status), the availability
of grants for repair and conservation, and the number and nature
of planning applications (to give an indication of the pressure
on character and appearance).
The audit enables a local community either to prepare a 'village
statement' as part of the statutory planning process or to comment
on such a statement produced by a local planning authority.
Three villages within the Peterborough City Council area have
been used to pilot the project - Thorney, Castor and Ailsworth.
The villages are very different in character and have therefore
been a useful test of the application of the audit tools.
The Castor and Ailsworth Built Environment Audits, plus a document
outling the tools and process and the lessons learned, were
launched on June 4th 2004 at the Cedar Centre, Castor.
The Thorney Built Environment Audit was launched on 18 February
2005.
This Peterborough study is a 'national first'.
The Castor Built Environment Audit is available from
PECT priced £10.00 postage and packaging.
The Ailsworth Built Environment Audit is available from
PECT priced £10.00 postage and packaging.
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