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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/25/01066/DOC

Conditions or Reasons:

5) Part A: No development shall take place until a written scheme of heritage asset resource management (WSHARM) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The said development shall only be implemented in full accordance with the approved scheme of works and the WSHARM shall contain the following components:

A method statement for a programme of building recording that complies with Level 3 of Historic England's Understanding Historic Buildings: A Guide to Good Recording Practice (2016)
A method statement for a programme of historic building monitoring and recording
A method statement for post - fieldwork analysis, publication, and archive deposition. This will include details of the timetable for each stage of the post-fieldwork scheme.

Part B: This condition shall only be fully discharged when:

all elements of the historic building recording and monitoring have been completed and the date of completion has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority
a final report has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority This shall be done within 18 months of the date of completion of the historic building recording and monitoring
the preparation of the site archive for deposition at stores approved by the Local Planning Authority has been undertaken and confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. For digital only archives this will include confirmation of the intention to deposit with a CoreTrustSeal certified repository dedicated to storing historic environment archives.
the publication report text (if appropriate) has been prepared for submission to recognised historic environment journal, or the approved final project report is submitted for inclusion in the Historic Environment Record, and this has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority

Reason: In line with paragraph 205 of the National Planning Policy Framework (July 2021): to investigate and record any heritage assets affected by the development, to safeguard the long-term future of the archive and to make the record of all the work publicly available. Part A of this condition is pre-commencement because development works can have an irreversible impact on heritage assets. Therefore, the WSHARM must be approved, and the historic building recording must be completed before the development starts.

This is advice is in line with Chapter 18 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan 2015-2035 (adopted 2021) and Chapter 16, NPPF (2021).

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