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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/26/00585/DOC

Conditions or Reasons:

3) Part A: No development shall take place until an archaeological written scheme of investigation (WSI), 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 WSI shall contain the following components:
1. method statements for the investigation of all archaeological remains present at the site.
2. a method statements for the preservation in situ of any archaeological remains that cannot be fully investigated (if appropriate)
3. an outline strategy for community engagement
4. an outline strategy for post-excavation assessment; analysis, publication, and archive deposition including details of the timetable for each stage of the post-excavation works.

Part B: This condition shall only be fully discharged when:
1. all elements of the archaeological fieldwork have been completed and the date of completion has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
2. 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
3. the post-excavation analysis as specified in the approved Updated Project Design (if one is prepared) has been completed.
4. the preparation of the site archives (including the completion of the archive report) for deposition at stores 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 CoreTrustSeal certified repository dedicated to storing archaeological archives.
5. the publication report text has been prepared for submission to either a recognised archaeological journal, as a standalone monograph or the Historic Environment Record
and this has been confirmed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Unless otherwise agreed in advance in writing by the Local Planning Authority, items 3, 4 and 5 of Part B of this condition shall be completed within 2 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 5 can be completed on the approval of the final archaeological report.

Reason: In line with policy HE1 of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan 2015-2035 (adopted July 2021) and paragraph 218 of the National Planning Policy Framework (Dec 2024): to investigate and record any archaeological remains 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 archaeological remains and an approved programme of investigation must be in place before the development starts.

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