Hackney Council creates Northwold and Cazenove Conservation Area

Hackney Council has designated a new conservation area around Cazenove Road. It has combined it with the existing Northwold and Evering Road one to create what is now known as Northwold and Cazenove Conservation Area.

Following a series of public consultations with local people, the Council says it has created the combined conservation area “to ensure that the character of the residential neighbourhood can be protected and positively enhanced”. The designation is supported by English Heritage.

Cllr Guy Nicholson, Cabinet Member for Regeneration and the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, said: “Conservation areas across our borough embrace a broad cross section of the best surviving examples of different styles of a wide range of developments found in our local neighbourhood.

“A conservation area is also there to actively encourage high quality development in a neighbourhood which is sympathetic to the area’s built environment and improves the quality of life for all residents.”

The Northwold and Cazenove Conservation Area lies to the west of Upper Clapton Road and comprises a compact group of streets running westward towards Stoke Newington and northwards towards Clapton Common. Almost the whole area was developed on lands owned by the Tyssen-Amhurst family and built during the late Victorian period between 1870 and 1890. The area holds an important place in the residential architectural history of Hackney because of the high quality and variety of types of Victorian homes there.

Conservation area designation means that consent would be required for demolition of most buildings within conservation areas and notification for works to trees, thereby affording greater protection to heritage assets and amenity value of trees.

It also allows the Council greater control over the design and quality of materials used in new developments, extensions and alterations to existing properties including changes to windows and front doors. Such changes, if uncontrolled, can cumulatively erode the character of an area. Conservation area designation also gives the council powers to require an owner to carry out urgent repairs to an unlisted building in a conservation area.