Hi Clare,
Surrey has a County-wide series of designated areas of three classes,
denoting archaeological potential, known archaeological sites, and
Scheduled Monuments. These areas are supplied to the district and borough
councils in full, and used by them as a trigger for planning consultations.
These designations also appear in the Local Plans and are backed up by
policy. As far as I know, the areas were originally hand-drawn onto maps
(in the dark days before GIS) , and then later created as a GIS layer for
our use - I'm not sure how the districts manage the information digitally,
but I assume that most of them have done something similar to enable
accurate consultations. If we need to update an area or create a new one,
we write to the head of development control at the district council, with
an annotated paper map attached to the letter.
In tandem with this, we also run a system of requiring archaeological
investigation on sites over a certain size if you're worried about losing
the potential ability to investigate interesting or noteworthy sites
outside such designated areas. This also appears as a policy in the County
Structure Plan Local Plans, and generally means that archaeology doesn't
get overlooked or under-resourced on large scale development projects. It
is also pretty successful at identifying hitherto unknown sites. Let me
know if you want more info on how this all works - probably better off list
so as not to bore everyone else with planning talk.
Cheers,
Tony
Clare Gathercole
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Hello everyone,
We are coming under pressure from some of our Districts to provide them
with archaeological consultation trigger data, in the form of a GIS layer
which can be used in a planning autoreferral system. In recent years we
have not provided trigger maps to the Districts at all, so are more or less
starting from scratch at this point. Does anyone have any experience of
generating GIS trigger data from SMR layers, either generally or,
especially, in relation to autoreferral systems? We would be very grateful
for any advice on sustainable methodologies and possible pitfalls.
Regards
Clare
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