Checklist All applicants/developers for schemes with archaeological aspects, or affecting gardens and designed landscapes are required to have regard to this SPG and should utilise the checklist below. Carry out early pre application consultation with the Local Planning Authority’s Development Management service and Dyfed Archaeological Trust. Be aware of how development proposals could affect archaeological resources and the heritage environment (including Gardens and Designed Landscapes) Consult the Historic Environment Register (HER), held and maintained by the Dyfed Archaeological Trust, to determine if heritage or archaeological resources are present on potential development sites. If considering archaeological work in support of a planning application, ensure that you select competent and skilled expert consultants. Ensure all archaeological work in support of the planning process conforms to legislative requirements and follows the guidance set out in this SPG. C1. Intorodunction tents Appendix 1 Development Management - Archaeology within the 2. The Historic Environment of Carmarthenshire Planning Application Process 3. National and Local Policy Contacts 4. Archaeology and the Planning Process 5. Procedures for Undertaking Archaeological Work 6. Carmarthen Town 1 1.1 This Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) 1.4 As applicants/developers will be expected to Ielabnorates tandr deovelops don theu policcies antd iomeet n the costs of archaeological work, this provisions of the Adopted Carmarthenshire Local document will assist in guiding non-specialists Development Plan (LDP). In so doing it seeks to through the planning procedures and protect the archaeological heritage of the County, archaeological work that may be involved. and its setting, by advising how development Information on professional archaeological proposals can best take account of archaeological contractors may be obtained from the Chartered issues. Whilst the presence of archaeological Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) or the British remains does not necessarily preclude Archaeological Jobs Resource (BAJR). development it is recognised that they represent an important finite source of information about the past. 1.5 In recognition of Carmarthen Town’s special Consequently their investigation and, where historic significance and high archaeological appropriate, preservation is important in its own potential, this guidance provides additional specific right and can provide an invaluable educational and information in relation the procedures and tourism resource. requirements of the planning process. 1.2 This SPG will provide detailed information and 1.6 It is an offence, punishable by fine, to do works guidance on the handling of archaeology in the to a scheduled monument without first obtaining planning process. It will also identify national scheduled monument consent. It is also an offence policies as contained within Planning Policy Wales to damage or destroy a scheduled monument. The and Technical Advice Note (TAN) 24: The Historic maximum penalty for this is an unlimited fine and/or Environment, as well as local policy considerations. a period of two years' imprisonment. 1.3 It also provides further detailed information on the Authority’s development management requirements and procedures and will upon adoption be a material consideration in the determination of planning applications. 1 The Historic Environment of Carmarthenshire 2 2.1 Carmarthenshire is recognised as an area 2.3 In definition the historic environment has communication. The County is studded with of special historic significance. Its landscape is been described as follows: important archaeological sites of all periods, diverse, extending from the coastal plains in ranging from Palaeolithic cave sites, funerary the south through gently rolling hills, which rise The past is all around us. We live our lives, and ritual monuments and hill-forts of the up to the Brecon Beacons and Cambrian whether consciously or not, against a rich prehistoric periods, to Roman forts, roads and Mountains in the north-east. This ancient backdrop formed by historic buildings, settlements (including the important town of landscape of natural geological formation has landscapes and other physical survivals of our Carmarthen), and to the castles, monastic sites been crafted and exploited over thousands of past. But the historic environment is more than and nucleated settlements of the Anglo- years by human activity, which has left its just a matter of material remains. It is central to Normans and post-medieval and industrial and indelible signature on the County. All this how we see ourselves and to our identity as military remains. landscape is therefore historic and significant individuals, communities and as a nation. It is though some areas, such as the Tywi Valley, a physical record of what our country is, how it 2.5 Through the land-use planning system, and have been identified as having special historic came to be, its successes and failures. It is a in accordance with national policy and value and have been included in the national collective memory, containing an infinity of legislation, the Council will seek to safeguard Register of Landscapes of Historic Interest in stories, some ancient, some recent: stories our historic environment and ensure that sites Wales, Part 2.1 Landscapes of Outstanding written in stone, brick, wood, glass, steel; of historic and archaeological significance are Historic Interest. stories inscribed in field patterns, hedgerows, not needlessly destroyed or damaged. designed landscapes and other features of the 2.2 Carmarthenshire County Council considers landscape. [The Historic Environment: A Force that the historic environment of the County has for Our Future, DCMS 2001] high value not just in its rich historic and archaeological inheritance but also in the 2.4 The historical and archaeological benefits it can bring to the present and future. inheritance of Carmarthenshire is exceptional. It contributes significantly to our modern lives Within the landscape evidence survives for giving us a sense of place and identity. It also early farming and forestry practices, offers significant economic benefit attracting settlements and dispersed farmsteads, mineral visitors to the County. exploitation, military conquest, religion and 2 National and Local Policy 3 3.1 In the United Kingdom, the protection of 3.3 For certain types of development (listed in sustainable management of the historic monuments and archaeological remains of Schedules 1 and 2 to the Town and Country environment, and introduces greater national importance is statutorily governed Planning (Environmental Impact transparency and accountability into decisions under the provisions of the Ancient Assessment) (England and Wales) taken on the historic environment. Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act Regulations 1999) formal environmental 1979 . In Wales Cadw, on behalf of Welsh impact assessment (EIA) may be necessary. Government, maintains a schedule of Where EIA is required, the developer must nationally important sites, which meet strict provide an environmental assessment setting criteria for inclusion and protection. It is an out the information specified in Schedule 3 to offence under law to demolish, damage, alter the Regulations about the site and the likely or fly-tip on these scheduled sites without the significant effects of the proposed development written consent of Welsh Government through on the environment. This should include Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments information relating to any significant effects on Directorate of the Welsh Government. material assets and the cultural heritage, such as archaeological features and other human 3.2 The protection of other non-scheduled artefacts, and the measures envisaged to monuments or archaeological remains, which avoid, reduce or remedy such adverse effects. may have national or regional significance, is required by Government legislation, notably the 3.4 It is noted that the Historic Environment provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Wales) Bill is now in place and forms part of Acts and the national planning policy a suite of legislation, policy, advice and framework in Wales. In Carmarthenshire these guidance that seek to make important historic sites are officially identified in the improvements to the existing systems for the databases of the regional Historic Environment protection and sustainable management of the Record (HER), held and maintained by Dyfed Welsh historic environment. In broad terms, the Archaeological Trust (DAT) and have been Bill gives more effective protection to listed adopted by resolution of Carmarthenshire buildings and scheduled monuments, County Council in fulfilling its statutory planning enhances existing mechanisms for the function. 3 Planning Policy Wales • contribute to the knowledge and will only be in exceptional circumstances that (Edition 9, November 2016), understanding of the past by making an planning permission will be granted if appropriate record when parts of a historic development would result in an adverse impact 3.5 Planning Policy Wales (PPW) provides the asset are affected by a proposed change, on a scheduled monument (or an overarching context for sustainable land use and ensuring that this record or the results of archaeological site shown to be of national planning policy in Wales and states that: any investigation are securely archived and importance) or has a significantly damaging