Description:  Planning permission granted at appeal for Enabling Development within the Stoke-on-Trent Green Belt to help fund the restoration of Madeley Manor, a grade II listed mansion of 1822-1825, built probably by Thomas Harrison for the Crewe family. 

HCUK Group involvement: HCUK Group was engaged over a period of six years providing heritage expertise and consultancy along with the preparation of a Heritage Appeal Statement and providing expert evidence at the associated hearing. 

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Summary​

This is case was unusual in that the Enabling Development was about four miles from the heritage asset.  Madeley Manor is the centrepiece of a designed landscape, such that previous applications for Enabling Development within the grounds had to be withdrawn as a result of objections – thus leading the off-site solution.  An important benefit was the conservation of 13 classical reliefs on the external walls, based on carvings from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae in southern Greece. These may have been copies of casts taken by the sculptor Richard Westmacott (1775-1856) from originals which had been acquired by the British Museum in 1815. They were probably acquired under the direction of the first occupant, Emma Crewe (1790 1850) who was an amateur artist.