I see that your primary intention is to use the system to trigger consultations
from the LPAs and to give the planning officers an early indication as to the
nature of your advice.
However, I'd be interested to know whether either you or the districts intend to
reproduce the constraint areas (or perhaps 'alert areas' is a better
description) in the Local Plans and associate the areas with particular
policies. We have some experience of this in Herts (primarily with regard to
how not to create a rod for your own back).
Tony
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Subject: Archaeological Constraint Maps fro District Councils
Author: [log in to unmask] (Duncan Coe
<[log in to unmask]>) at HERTSCC
Date: 05/05/00 09:30
Dear Colleague,
As part of a partnership with our District Councils we have
agreed to
draw up archaeological constraint maps for each of the District areas.
We have began the process by drawing up a methodology. We
initially
tried a complex system, but now have come up with something
which we
hope is relatively simple and effective. The details are
explained
below.
WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS WHETHER ANYONE IS USING A SYSTEM
LIKE THIS
AND IF SO THEIR TRACK EXPERIENCE OF HOW IT IS WORKING?
The methodology is as follows:
1) We have started from the basis that the constraint areas
will based
on land use; therefore downland/original pasture and land in
arable
cultivation.
2) We divided all our site-types into two categories (A and B),
which is
a subjective division based essentially on their importance in
the
County. For example long barrows, henge monuments, palaces and
settlements fall within category A, while field systems,
ditches and
ring ditches fall within category B.
3) Each site is then examined from the SMR record and assigned a score.
Sites in category A are given a score of 2, in category B a score of 1.
If the site is disturbed or destroyed it will not receive any
additional
scores. If the site is ploughed it will receive another 2
points, if it
is extant it will receive an additional 4 points. For example a
henge
monument in category A will receive 2 points if destroyed, 4
points if
ploughed, but 6 points for being extant. A field system in
category B
will receive 1 point for under a motorway, 3 points for being
ploughed,
but 5 points for being extant.
4) For all sites with a score of 2 or 3 we are suggesting to
the
District Councils they consult us on all applications. For
sites with a
score of 4, 5 or 6 that they are preserved in situ; in this way
the
District Councils will have an initial idea on our response to
a
planning application any particular area.
We have excluded all Scheduled Monuments from the process as
these are
already graded as such, but will include them on our maps. We
are also
excluding the towns until the results of our extensive urban
survey have
been completed, when the information can be transferred direct.
We will be plotting the constraint areas in AutoCAD as polygons
and
hopefully transferring this information as digital data to the
District
Councils.
I would be most grateful for any comments you have to
hcp@wiltsarchaeolo
gy.demon.co.uk.
Yours faithfully,
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Helena Cave-Penney
Wiltshire Archaeology Service
Phone: 01225 713734
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