Hi Richard
Merry Nearly Xmas to you all!
I 100% agree with you on this. I find I am having to reinforce this to developers/agents/applicants on a weekly basis, and less frequently but somewhat more frustratingly, the occasional LPA Officer.
I think a more definite statement made more prominent would be helpful.
Cheers
David Littlewood
Historic Environment Record Manager
Nottinghamshire County Council
0115 9932589
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Sent: 18 December 2019 13:00
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Subject: Statement on front page of Heritage Gateway
Hello all,
I hope you're all well!
One of our team members recently attended one of the CIfA workshops on Desk Based Assessments, about how the current process could be improved, and it's prompted a few discussions here. One of the key things we noted was the need for developers to properly consult the respective HER for their proposed development sites, and not just rely on the more limited data that many of us make available through Heritage Gateway. I know the Heritage Gateway has a statement on the front page, saying:
'Please note that local HER records contain much more detailed information than is currently available here. Please contact the relevant authority direct for all planning matters or queries relating to their records.'
This doesn't seem to be quite strongly worded enough for us, however, and I wondered if we might collectively be interested in trying to beef that up? Archwilio (the Welsh version of Heritage Gateway) gives the following statement on their front page, which does seem better, but still possibly not strong enough:
'Commercial projects undertaken as part of the development management process should not rely solely on the information available via Archwilio. Further information should be sought directly from the staff at the relevant Trust via that Trust's Enquiries page.'
I'm not sure if everyone else agrees, but we were thinking here that the statement ought to say something along the lines that DBAs/Heritage Statements/etc. that are conducted without doing a full HER search will not be accepted for the purposes of informing planning applications. We were thinking that it would be useful to more explicitly state what some of the minimum standards for these documents should be. Does that sound helpful to others?
Merry Christmas to all, by the way! Wishing you all the best for the New Year too!
Richard Watts
Lincolnshire County Council
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