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Exhibit H5 to the conservation officer letter: an article of 2001 on the Appraisal
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Exhibit H5 to our letter to the conservation officer of 25 September 2026 (register document 9540041): an article of 2001 on the Conservation Area Appraisal.
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Exhibit H5 to CLAG’s conservation officer letter (24 September 2026): three pages of the article of 2001 by the appraisal’s project manager on the Historic Core Appraisal’s method Filed with CLAG’s conservation officer letter, for the public register of application 26/02109/FUL. The three pages below are from the article “Managing Complex Historic Cities: The Cambridge Historic Core Appraisal” by Jon Burgess, Journal of Architectural Conservation, volume 7, number 1 (March 2001), pages 42 to 55, as published online by the journal: the citation page, the page carrying the passage the letter quotes on the street by street section, “This section is vital to the document’s usefulness as a development control tool, as it will define the special characteristics of different areas and highlight sites for redevelopment” (the article’s page 51, exhibit page 3), and the biography page, which records that the author was then “Conservation and Design Manager at Cambridge City Council” and “project manager of the Historic Core Appraisal” (the article’s page 55, exhibit page 4). The same author, as Planning and Heritage Director of Turley, signed the applicant’s letter to the case officer of 26 September 2025 (document 7378931 on the register of application 25/02161/FUL), whose footnote 2 the letter quotes. The three pages are reproduced for the purpose of the letter’s point, without the rest of the article; each carries its item number, its page within the item and its page in this exhibit, and is reproduced below the stamp at a slightly reduced size. Nothing on the pages is changed. Item H5.1: the citation page, the article’s page 51 and the article’s page 55 (three pages).
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Exhibit H5, item H5.1: Jon Burgess, Managing Complex Historic Cities: The Cambridge Historic Core Appraisal, Journal of Architectural C Page 1 of 3. Source: the journal's online publication, as CLAG holds it
Journal of Architectural Conservation
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Managing Complex Historic Cities: The Cambridge Historic Core Appraisal Jon Burgess To cite this article: Jon Burgess (2001) Managing Complex Historic Cities: The Cambridge Historic Core Appraisal, Journal of Architectural Conservation, 7:1, 42-55, DOI: 10.1080/13556207.2001.10785285 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2001.10785285
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Exhibit H5, page 2 of 4
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Exhibit H5, item H5.1: Jon Burgess, Managing Complex Historic Cities: The Cambridge Historic Core Appraisal, Journal of Architectural C Page 2 of 3. Source: the journal's online publication, as CLAG holds it
Exhibit H5, page 3 of 4
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Figure 5 Abridged detail from the street survey for the Historic Core Appraisal showing Bridge Street. The signs shown in Figure 4 have now been removed. The street will be resurveyed after the enhancement works to judge their impact. © Crown copyright. This section is vital to the document's usefulness as a development control tool, as it will define the special characteristics of different areas and highlight sites for redevelopment, paving the way for development guidelines and planning briefs on specific sites. In assessing the spaces around buildings, and any opportunities for enhancement, it will also give clear guidance about where and on what Section 106 money from large developments in the city might be spent. An important aspect of this section will be assessment not only of what features are common to the
Journal of Architectural Conservation No 1 March 2001
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Exhibit H5, item H5.1: Jon Burgess, Managing Complex Historic Cities: The Cambridge Historic Core Appraisal, Journal of Architectural C Page 3 of 3. Source: the journal's online publication, as CLAG holds it
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The way forward The massive development pressure exerted on Cambridge has itself slowed down work on the Core Appraisal as key staff have been forced to deal with day-to-day issues at the expense of more proactive work. Structural changes within the department and re-prioritizing of projects mean that the prospect for completing this much-vaunted piece of work has now significantly improved and the internal project group (which will involve English Heritage, the County Council and the Preservation Society) has been reformed. While this paper began by stressing the need for a unique, tailor-made structure for Cambridge, it would be extremely useful to hear of experiences from other cities around the world with issues similar to those of Cambridge. The findings of the first phase of the Cambridge Core Appraisal will be reported in a future edition of the]oumal ofArchitectural Conservation. Biography
]on Burgess PhD, MA (Arch Con), BA (Hans), BPI, Dip Con, MRTPI, IHBC Jon Burgess is Conservation and Design Manager at Cambridge City Council, a post he has held for the past six years. Prior to that he was Senior Conservation Officer at Peterborough City Council and has also worked for Fylde Borough Council and his native city of Bradford. His work with Cambridge City Council involves him in a wide range of issues affecting the historic environment, and he is project manager of the Historic Core Appraisal, the topic of this paper. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Cambridge City Council or other partners in the project. Acknowledgement The maps in this paper are reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Cambridge City Council {Licence No. LA 077372) 2000. Notes 1 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Our Towns and Cities: The Future Delivering an Urban Renaissance, HMSO, London (2000). 2 Segal Quince Wicksteed, The Cambridge Phenomerwn Revisited: Part 1, Segal Quince Wicksteed, Histon (2000). 3 Government Office for the Eastern Region/Department of the Environment,
Journal of Architectural Conseroation No 1 March 2001
The first permission is quashed. The second is frozen.
On Tuesday 20 October 2026 the High Court quashed the first approval, 25/02161/FUL, on all four grounds of our claim. The Secretary of State has frozen the permission. On 13 October she directed the Council not to grant it without her authorisation while she considers whether to call the application in, six days after the identical application 26/02109/FUL was controversially approved. If you would like to support a call in, write to us and we will tell you how.
Email residents@christs-lane.com.