Parish Planning Guidance

"A Design For Hurst, incorporating the Parish Design Statement"

The Design for St. Nicholas Hurst has been produced by the people of the Parish and is a statement of our aspirations for the Parish. At each stage, all households throughout the Parish have been invited to contribute their views and many have accepted those invitations. A great deal of work and thought by many people has gone into it, and it reflects the views of the whole Parish.

Some development is inevitable in the Parish. The people of Hurst value their environment and strongly wish to retain what is good about it and ensure that its special character will be protected and enhanced when new development takes place.

The Design for Hurst sets out to define that which gives the village and its surrounding countryside its distinctive character. From that is drawn a series of Objectives, leading to specific Guidelines for the design of any future development within the Parish which will maintain and enhance that character.

This document provides guidance to all people contemplating any development in the Parish, from individuals planning a small extension to their house to a developer proposing a major planning application. It will also be used by the local planning authorities and the Parish Council to assess the impact on the Parish of any proposed developments.

The Parish Design Statement, chapters 11 & 12 of this document, was formally adopted by Wokingham District Council as a Supplementary Planning Document on 17th March 2005.

The Design for Hurst is available here as a PDF* document. There is also an HTML based version available on the Parish Council website.

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