Area Character Assessments
The Yateley Society is managing a character assessment of the built environment of Yateley. The Civil Parish of Yateley is divided into four Wards. Three of the Wards each contain a Conservation Area. Two of the these CAs have recently been assessed by the District Council's Conservation Officer, and CA Statements have been published. The Society aims to make similar studies for the modern built environment - mostly residential estates built since the 1960s.
An Ward Assessor has been appointed for each of the four Wards. Each Ward has been further divided into distinct character areas under a small team of Area Assessors. If you would like to join one of these teams please email us using hte email link on the SideBar. You do not have to be a member of the Society.
The following pages mostly relate to the management of the character assessment and the criteria which will be used to makes these assessments.
The letter from the Chairman of the Society's Planning Subcommittee to Hart District Council offering to prepare the draft Land-use Planning part of the Yateley Parish Plan.
Lower Layer Super Output Areas
Since the Society started to survey those areas of Yateley not covered by the Yateley Village Design Framework, the Society has become aware of Super Output Areas. SOAs are a new hierarchy of geographic areas, used by the Office of National Statistics to report datasets on Neighbourhood Statistics website. There are three layers, based on population size bands. These are fully explained by the ONS on their website. Of interest to us is the 'middle layer (MSOA) which, for the Civil Parish of Yateley are the four wards, and the Lower Level Super Output Areas (LSOA) which in Yateley number 13.
The 13 LSOAs for Yateley exactly number the neighbourhood character areas originally devised by the Yateley Society, and closely resemble the Society's boundaries. The Society's Neighbourhood boundaries were designed to encompass discrete chararcter areas whereas the LSOA's appear to have been devised to create as near as possible areas of equal population.
Nevertheless there are distinct advantages to further local planning objectives for the Society to modify the boundaries of the neighbourhood character areas to coincide exactly with the 13 LSOAs for Yateley. Area maps can easily be found on the ONS Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS) website by entering a postcode which falls within the LSOA.
The first statistical application using LSOAs was for the Indices of Deprivation 2004. This gave the more than 32,482 LSOAs in England instant publicity and usage across the local government sector. Hart District is te least deprived Local Authority Area in England and Yateley has some of the least deprived LSOAs in England. Notwithstanding this rather sensational application the 2001 Census has been subdivided at its lowest geographic level into these nex LSOAs so much useful data can be obtained.
The Countryside Agency issued a pamphlet Town Design Statements, Why and how to produce them, Good practice advice in order to guide local communities in carrying out an area-by-area Townscape Analysis
Questions used in a feasibility study of part of Yateley North Ward early summer 2005
Questions devised by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to assess the health of built-up areas in order to help Town Halls identify where investment might be needed.
A list of questions has been published by the Urban Design Alliance. These questions are copyright. However the basic questions are exactly the same as used in a survey carried out by the by the Yateley Study Group in 1981.
The 4 wards in the Civil Parish of Yateley have been further subdivide as follows:
The Society's Local Historians are attached to the Project Management Group.
Assistance will be given in finding the name of the estate developer and dating the building of the estates
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