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RWE Innogy UK Limited Circuit Breaker Housing at Mybster Desk-Based Assessment Document 1 | v4 24 November 2015 Mybster Circui t Br eaker Building D esk- Based Assessment RWE Innog yU K Limi ted Mybster Circuit Breaker Housing Desk-Based Assessment Mybster Circuit Breaker Housing Project no: B2028306 Document title: Mybster Circuit Breaker Housing Desk-Based Assessment Document No.: Document 1 Revision: V4 Date: 24 November 2015 Client name: RWE Innogy UK Limited Client no: Project manager: Rory McDonnell Author: David Bull File name: Mybster Circuit Breaker Building Cultural Heritage Desk-Based Assessment V0.4 23 Nov 2015.docx Jacobs U.K. Limited 160 Dundee Street Edinburgh EH11 1DQ United Kingdom T +44 (0)131 659 1500 F +44 (0)131 228 6177 www.jacobs.com © Copyright 2015 Jacobs U.K. Limited. The concepts and information contained in this document are the property of Jacobs. 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Document history and status Revision Date Description By Review Approved 1 20/11/2015 Review David Bull Jonathan Dempsey 2 23/11/2015 Review David Bull Rory McDonnell 3 23/11/2015 Verification Maryanne Paterson 4 24/11/2015 Revisions based on verification David Bull Jonathan Dempsey 5 24/11/2015 Client review Karen Fox 6 25/11/2015 Revisions based on client review David Bull Jonathan Rory Dempsey McDonnell RWE Innogy UK Limited 1 Mybster Circuit Breaker Housing Desk-Based Assessment Contents Executive Summary...............................................................................................................................................4 Introduction............................................................................................................................................................5 Legislation and Planning Policy ..........................................................................................................................6 Legislation................................................................................................................................................................6 National Planning Policy Guidance .........................................................................................................................6 Regional and Local Planning Policy and Guidance.................................................................................................7 Methodology ..........................................................................................................................................................9 Consultation.............................................................................................................................................................9 Data Gathering ........................................................................................................................................................9 Study Area and Data Gathering ..............................................................................................................................9 Assessment of Effect.............................................................................................................................................10 Importance.............................................................................................................................................................10 Effects on Setting...................................................................................................................................................11 Magnitude of Impact ..............................................................................................................................................12 Significance of Effect .............................................................................................................................................12 Limitations to the Assessment...............................................................................................................................13 Archaeological and Historical Background......................................................................................................14 Baseline Conditions ............................................................................................................................................16 Cultural Heritage Assets........................................................................................................................................16 Archaeological Remains........................................................................................................................................16 Unknown Archaeological Remains........................................................................................................................17 Historic Landscape ................................................................................................................................................17 Potential Impact ...................................................................................................................................................19 Assessment of Impacts..........................................................................................................................................19 Proposed Mitigation ............................................................................................................................................21 Residual Effects...................................................................................................................................................22 Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................................................23 References ...........................................................................................................................................................24 Tables Table 1: Criteria for the assessment of the importance of Cultural Heritage Assets Table 2: Magnitude of Impact on Cultural Heritage Assets Table 3: Significance of Effect on Cultural Heritage Assets Table 4: Summary of Cultural Heritage Assets forming the Baseline Table 5: Significance of residual effect on Cultural Heritage Assets within the Study Area RWE Innogy UK Limited 2 Mybster Circuit Breaker Housing Desk-Based Assessment Plates Plate 1: View looking west of the 1901 shepherds hut now an ancillary building associated with a wind farm and Achkeepster, farmstead (Asset 1). Plate 2: View looking south-east across the Achkeepster Drovers Enclosure (Asset 2). Plate 3: View looking east showing the north-west corner of the Achkeepster Drovers Enclosure (Asset 2) and the modern break in the western enclosure bank. Plate 4: View looking south showing the well-defined eastern enclosure bank of the Achkeepster Drovers Enclosure (Asset 2). Plate 5: View looking north showing the intersection of the eastern enclosure bank and the internal division of the Achkeepster Drovers Enclosure (Asset 2). Plate 6: View looking south-west showing one of two hollows which coincide with those shown on the Ordnance Survey Second Edition six inch to a mile Caithness-shire Sheet XXII map published in 1905. Plate 7: View looking north-west from the southern end of the Achkeepster Drovers Enclosure (Asset 2) towards Achkeepster, farmstead (Asset 1). Figures Figure 1: Location of Proposed Development, 50m Study Area and Undesignated Cultural Heritage Assets Figure 2: Location of Historic Landscape Types Figure 3: Location of Designated Cultural Heritage Assets within 2km of the Study Area Figure 4: Extract from Haldane’s map of the Drove Roads of Scotland (Haldane, 2008). Figure 5: Extract from Roy’s Military Map of Scotland showing Spittle Hill but not the road to the west towards Thurso. Figure 6: Extract from John Thomson’s Atlas of Scotland, 1832, naming Achateepster. Figure 7: Extract from Ordnance Survey First Edition one inch to a mile Wick Sheet 116 map published in 1877, naming Achkeepster. Figure 8: Extract from Ordnance Survey First Edition six inch to a mile Caithness Sheet XXIII map published in 1877 naming Achkeepster and showing Assets 1 and 2. Figure 9: Extract from Ordnance Survey Second Edition six inch to a mile Caithness-shire Sheet XXII map published in 1905 naming Achkeepster and showing two irregular features between the road and the enclosure (Asset 2). Figure 10: Extract from Ordnance Survey First Edition 25 inch to a mile Caithness Sheet XXII.1 map published 1877 which only shows the northern end of Asset 2, and Asset 3. Appendices Appendix A. Cultural Heritage Asset Gazetteer RWE Innogy UK Limited 3 Mybster Circuit Breaker Housing Desk-Based Assessment Executive Summary This report presents the results of a cultural heritage desk-based assessment and walkover survey undertaken to support the planning application for the proposed Mybster circuit breaker housing. As agreed with The Highland Council Historic Environment Team a study area was defined to include the proposed development and