BRITFORD CONSERVATION AREA 
APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN 
ADOPTED DECEMBER 2014

16.0 CONCLUSION

16.1 The high landscape quality within the Britford Conservation Area forms a wider setting to the city and the consuming backdrop to built form within the conservation area. ITS CHARACTER IS SEPARATE FROM THE CITY AND IT SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED PART OF THE SALISBURY CITY CONSERVATION AREA, BUT SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN IDENTITY and set of management tools.

16.2 An extension to the south-west is recommended to ensure the continued protection of THE ALL-IMPORTANT LANDSCAPE SETTING TO BRITFORD, and to secure recognition and understanding for the former section of the seventeenth century canal with possible survival of structures from this period. This should be recognised in the conservation area designation.

16.3 Generally THE QUALITY OF THE BUILT FORM IS VERY HIGH AND THERE HAS BEEN LIMITED LOSS OF HISTORIC FEATURES such as windows, doors, roofs and boundary walls. There is an eclectic mix of buildings, mostly from the eighteenth century, but some older, and these are united by brick boundary walls, in varying degrees of repair, hedgerows and trees. This combination of hard and soft treatments of enclosure to the roadsides, along with the grass verges, makes a very positive contribution to the character of the conservation area.

16.4 BRITFORD HAS A HIGH NUMBER OF HERITAGE ASSETS AND NEEDS TO BE CAREFULLY MONITORED AND MANAGED TO ENSURE ITS SPECIAL QUALITY IS MAINTAINED. This is particularly the case for new buildings and extensions to historic buildings, which in general terms have been fairly successful to date.