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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/26/00141/DOC

Conditions or Reasons:

20) Part A:

No development shall take place until a written scheme of archaeological resource management (WSARM) 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 archaeological scheme and the WSARM shall contain the following components:

an outline method statement for the investigation of all archaeological remains which will be impacted upon by the development hereby approved

an outline method statement for the preservation in situ of any archaeological remains (if appropriate)

an outline strategy for a programme of interpretation, public outreach and community engagement; and

an outline strategy for post-excavation assessment; analysis, publication, and archive deposition for the investigation stages of the project. This will include details of the timetable for each stage of the post-excavation works.

Part B:

This condition shall only be fully discharged when:

all elements of the archaeological fieldwork have been completed and the date of completion has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority

it has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority that the programme of interpretation, public outreach and engagement has been completed

a final archaeological report or (if appropriate) a Post Excavation Assessment report and an Updated Project Design 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 archaeological fieldwork unless otherwise agreed in advance in writing by the Local Planning Authority

the post-excavation analysis as specified in the approved Updated Project Design (if one is prepared) has been completed

the preparation of the site archives (including the completion of the archive report) for deposition at storage locations approved by the Local Planning Authority has been undertaken and confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority. For the digital archive this will include confirmation of the intention to deposit with a Core Trust Seal certified repository dedicated to storing archaeological archives; and

the publication report text has been prepared for submission to either a recognised archaeological journal or an approved final report is submitted to the Historic Environment Record, and this has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Items 2, 4-6 of Part B of this condition shall be completed within 3 years of the archaeological fieldwork date of completion. Should the project not warrant the production of a Post Excavation Assessment report, an Updated Project Design and a publication text, Item 6 can be completed on the approval of the final archaeological report.

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