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Heritage Statement Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU The pricesHeritage below reflect Statement some of our tailored products which allows you, our client, to haveLand the piece to ofthe mind North about theof Felindreoverall cost Road,impact for Pencoed, your individual CF35 projects: 5HU For By GK Heritage Consultants Ltd April 2019 V4 (ed) October 2019. Heritage Statement: Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU Heritage Statement Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU GK Heritage Consultants Ltd Report 2019/121 April 2019 © GK Heritage Consultants Ltd 2018 3rd Floor, Old Stock Exchange, St Nicholas Street, Bristol, BS1 1TG www.gkheritage.co.uk Prepared on behalf of: Energion Date of compilation: April 2019 Compiled by: G Kendall MCIfA Local Authority: Bridgend County Borough Council Site central NGR: SS96908137: (296908, 181377) i Heritage Statement: Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Project and Planning Background ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Site Description ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Proposed Development ......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4 Geology .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................................ 5 3 METHOD STATEMENT ............................................................................................................................................. 6 3.2 Information Sources .............................................................................................................................................. 6 4 PLANNING POLICY WALES 2017 .............................................................................................................................. 7 4.1 Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2016. ............................................................................................................... 7 5 BASELINE DATA ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 5.1 Statutory and local heritage designations ............................................................................................................ 9 5.2 Non-Designated Assets .......................................................................................................................................... 9 5.3 Historic Landscape Character ........................................................................................................................... 10 5.4 Pencoed Technology Park and Sony Factory ...................................................................................................... 10 5.5 Archaeological and Historical Background ......................................................................................................... 11 5.6 Synthesis of Historic Development ..................................................................................................................... 15 6 ASSESSMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE & POTENTIAL IMPACT ..........................................................................17 6.1 Historic Landscape ............................................................................................................................................... 17 6.2 Affected Non-Designated Assets ......................................................................................................................... 18 6.3 Heritage Significance ........................................................................................................................................... 18 6.4 Magnitude of Impact and Significance of Effect................................................................................................. 19 7 POTENTIAL INDIRECT DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS ON DESIGNATED HERITAGE ASSETS ..............................................19 7.1 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 8 PUBLICITY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND COPYRIGHT......................................................................................................19 8.1 Statement of Indemnity ...................................................................................................................................... 20 8.2 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................. 20 ii Heritage Statement: Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Listed Buildings within 1km .............................................................................................................................. 9 Table 2: Scheduled Monuments 1km ............................................................................................................................. 9 Table 3: Non-Designated Assets 1km ........................................................................................................................... 10 LIST OF APPENDICES Appendix 1: Designated and non-designated heritage assets .................................................................................... 21 Appendix 2: Site photographs ...................................................................................................................................... 22 Appendix 3: Impact Assessment Methodology ........................................................................................................... 26 Appendix 4: Report Conditions ..................................................................................................................................... 29 iii Heritage Statement: Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project and Planning Background 1.1.1 GK Heritage Consultants Ltd were commissioned by Energion to undertake a Heritage Statement of Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU. The proposed development is for the installation of a 2 mw Peaking Gas Development. 1.2 Site Description 1.2.1 The proposed area of development (hereafter referred to as the “PDA”) is located on land to the north of Felindre Road, to the east of the town of Pencoed, Bridgend (Fig.1). 1.2.3 The PDA forms the northern part of two fields which lie directly adjacent to Felindre Road. The Site is bounded by open fields and scrub land to the north, east, south and west. There is an existing sub- station located to the south-west. To the north-east is a large field with stables associated with Felindre Mill. 1.2.4 The nearest sensitive receptors (residential and educational premises) are Felindre Mill, approximately 220 m north-east, the Old Mill, approximately 250 m south-east and the Pencoed Travel lodge and Pencoed Growers Nursery, 280-300 m east. Bridgend College lies to the north over 400 m from the site boundary. Fig.1 Location Plan. PDA 4 Heritage Statement: Land to the North of Felindre Road, Pencoed, CF35 5HU 1.3 Proposed Development 1.3.1 The proposed planning application is for the installation of 9, 2 MW engines, fuelled by natural gas. The engines would be housed in container buildings 3.8 m in height. The emission flues would terminate above the containers at 12 m above ground level. There would be a total of 10 emission flues with two engines per flue. 1.3.2 Also included on site would be a small switch room and gas kiosk. 1.4 Geology 1.4.1 According to the British Geological Survey Map (1:50000) online map1 the site is underlain by Marros Group - Mudstone, Siltstone and Sandstone. Sedimentary Bedrock formed approximately 319 to 329 million years ago in the Carboniferous Period. Overlying this are superficial layers of River Terrace Deposits (undifferentiated) - Sand and Gravel. Superficial Deposits formed up to 3 million years ago in the Quaternary Period. Local environment previously dominated by rivers. 2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 2.1 The principal aims of this assessment are to produce a report detailing any archaeological potential of the PDA, and to assess the potential impacts of the proposed development upon any buried and upstanding archaeological remains, historic buildings, the historic landscape and the settings of nationally designated assets and to assess their significance. The following objectives will contribute towards accomplishing this aim: ◆ To collate and assess existing information about the historic environment within the study area and to determine as fully as possible from the available evidence the nature, survival, quality, extent and importance of any archaeological remains and any upstanding buildings/structures within the PDA. ◆ To provide an assessment of the areas of archaeological potential and survival based on the above research and assess the potential
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