Conservation Area: Abington Park Conservation Area (DNN12348)

Abington Park is one of Northampton’s main public parks and although it ostensibly dates from the turn of the 20th century, it overlies remnants of a much earlier 18th century parkland landscape. The residential properties surrounding the park are equally significant; the majority were developed in the first quarter of the 20th century and whilst individual buildings vary greatly in design, their complementary styles and materials have produced a range of buildings whose quality and consistency are unique in Northampton for that date. Quite apart from their amenity value, Victorian and Edwardian urban parks are increasingly being seen in the same light as other historic designed landscapes, and Abington Park is important as a link between the two traditions. Although the park itself is protected by virtue of its public ownership, its environs are exposed to the constant development pressures common to all towns, and the conservation area is one means of managing change in a sensitive and consistent manner. The extent of the conservation area encompasses the whole of Abington Park and includes those residential properties fronting the park along parts of Christchurch Road, Park Avenue South, Abington Park Crescent and Wellingborough Road which are of particular merit in architectural or townscape terms. The line of the conservation area boundary has been designed to be geographically coherent and follows property boundaries, or other readily identifiable topographic features, wherever practicable.

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