Summary

 

The Lanes Conservation Area was designated  in 1981. The Lanes provide a network of footpaths linking Bull Head Street, Moat Street, Long Street, Bell Street and a section of Central Avenue to the West is also included. This page gives an overview of the conservation area and provides links to the adopted Conservation Area Appraisal and Development Control Guidance.

 

Attachments

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Map of The Lanes Conservation Area (278 kb)|

 

Overview of the area

 

The Lanes Conservation Area is characterised by the contrast between the 'hidden' green open space of the Manchester Gardens and the urban built development that surrounds it. The Lanes themselves are a throwback to the village's origins and probably served to link the two cores of the original settlement. Today they are a series of quiet routes away from traffic in the middle of an urban environment and are of great value in creating the feeling of a quiet backwater in the town centre. The survival of the Manchester Gardens (now allotments) at the heart of the Lanes as an area of open space in such an urban environment is hugely beneficial. The four perimeter streets of the rectangular village centre are characterised by their commercial character with small clusters of residential properties. This is reversed in the streets that run west from this central rectangle which are dominated by nineteenth century housing. The northern and eastern sides of the built frontage to the central green area are mainly comprised of commercial buildings and form part of the centre of the modern Wigston Magna.  

 

Conservation Area Appraisal and Development Control Guidance

 

An Appraisal and Development Control Guidance| has been prepared for The Lanes Conservation Area, this fulfils our duty to draw up and publish proposals for the preservation and enhancement of the area as required by the Planning (Listed buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

 

The documents were formally adopted on Monday, 15 January 2007.

 

Statutory listed buildings within the Conservation Area

 

Listed buildings within The Lanes Conservation Area are grade two (grade II) which are buildings of special interest which warrant every effort being made to preserve them.

 

The statutory listed buildings are:

Avenue House, 1 Central Avenue: Grade two

34 Long Street: Grade two
United Reform Church and Boundary Railings, Long Street: Grade two