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

Representation Summary:

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.

Change suggested by respondent:

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).

Full text:

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.