Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 10999
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Archaeology Warwickshire
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? Yes
Duty to co-operate? Yes
We are pleased to note that a policy has been included recognising the importance of the historic environment to the borough and that it highlights the need for applications to be supported by appropriately informed heritage statements. We would, however, highlight that section 4 of this policy only presently references known heritage assets, without acknowledging that a proposed development site may contain as yet unknown non-designated heritage assets, such as previously unidentified buried archaeological features.
This could be addressed by adding the following text, or similar, after the sentence reading 'The latter include buildings, monuments, archaeological sites, places, areas or landscapes positively identified in Solihull’s Historic Environment Record, or during development management work as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions, such as those identified on the Local List of Heritage Asset':
Non-designated heritage assets may also include as yet unidentified heritage assets (for example previously unknown archaeological features).
We are pleased to note that a policy has been included recognising the importance of the historic environment to the borough and that it highlights the need for applications to be supported by appropriately informed heritage statements. We would, however, highlight that section 4 of this policy only presently references known heritage assets, without acknowledging that a proposed development site may contain as yet unknown non-designated heritage assets, such as previously unidentified buried archaeological features.