Whitchurch-StouffvilleHeritageHeritage Conservation Districts
Church Street / Stouffville Centre HCD Plan
Published by Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville
This is the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville’s document, as published on its website on 16 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Plan
- Published by
- Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville
- Date
- June 2024
- Also called
- Church Street/Village Centre North Heritage Conservation Plan
- Form reference
- Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act
- For
- owner
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 60
- Instruments
- Ontario Heritage Act
Overview
The Heritage Conservation District Plan for Church Street / Stouffville Centre, the residential district north of downtown Stouffville, prepared by MHBC for the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville in June 2024. It takes in Church, Mill, George, Duchess, Commercial and Frederick Streets, with heritage attributes including master builder Nathan Forsyth's 1890s Romanesque Revival houses, the 1892 Methodist (United) Church and the lots of Plans 58, 51 and 63. Part II sets guidelines for alterations, additions, infill, demolition and landscapes; Part III lists exempt alterations. One of the Town's three district plans.
What it covers
- PART I – HCD Framework
- 1.0 Introduction
- 1.3 Who should use this District Plan?
- 2.0 District Significance, Heritage Attributes and Objectives
- 2.2 Statement of District Significance
- 2.3 List of heritage attributes
- PART II – Policies and guidelines for managing change
- 3.3 Cultural heritage impact assessments
- 4.0 Alterations to contributing properties
- 5.0 Additions to contributing buildings
- 6.0 Alterations and additions to other properties
- 7.0 Infill development
- 8.0 Demolition and removal of buildings and structures
- 9.0 Landscape conservation and design guidance for private property
- 10.0 Landscape conservation guidance for the public realm
- 11.0 Guidelines related to accessibility
- 12.0 Guidelines related to energy conservation and sustainability
- 13.0 Lands adjacent to heritage conservation districts
- PART III - Exempt alterations and classes of alterations
- 14.0 Exempt alterations
- 14.4 Emergency work
- PART IV - Glossary
- Appendix A
- Illustration of contributing properties
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