In Test Valley we have worked very closely with our Environmental Health
Colleagues, and accept that any requirements in respect of contaminated
sites takes precedence over any archaeological need. We do require
archaeological firms to establish requirements with health officers as part
of their site assessment and to incorporate information into their WSI
mitigation strategies, not least to safeguard their own staff under Health
and Safety Legislation.
As an authority environmental health staff increasingly require to know
where top soil being imported to sites comes from and that we have details
of soil chemical analysis. Top soil from our own contaminated sites had
ended up elsewhere and has had to be entirely removed! The spin of from this
is that increasingly we can be certain of the origin of stray finds from
gardens on such developments where top soil has been imported, information
that should be linked back to the SMR, but that is another issue !
Finally we are considering the issue of all cemetery sites for inclusion as
contaminated sites with, if known, their original extent beneath later
developments roads etc as a means of alerting statutory and other
authorities of their presence and thus other legal requirements that need to
be fulfilled.
Frank Green
Heritage Officer
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