AUGEAN SECTION 73 EAST NORTHANTS RESOURCE ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT APPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT FACILITY APPENDIX ESN EAST NORTHANTS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FACILITY. CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSESSMENT. FEBRUARY 2012 AU/KCE/SPS/1612/01/ES April 2012 AU_KCEp11821 Andrew Josephs Ltd Environmental Consultants Specialising in Cultural Heritage and EIA East Northants Resource Management Facility IPC document reference: WS01 0001/ENRMF/ESAPPESN Planning Act 2008 The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedures) Regulations 2009 Regulation 5(2)(a) Cultural Heritage Assessment February 2012 E:mail [email protected] ● Telephone 0044 (0) 7990 571908 16 South Terrace, Sowerby, Thirsk, YO7 1RH Andrew Josephs Associates is a trading name of Andrew Josephs Ltd. Registered Office, Antrobus House, 18 College St, Petersfield, GU31 4AD. Registration no. 4547366 East Northants RMF February 2012 Cultural Heritage CONTENTS 1 Introduction 4 1.1 Scope 1.2 Setting 1.3 Relevant Legislation 1.4 National Policy and Guidance 1.5 Regional Policy and Guidance 1.6 Sub-regional and Local Policy and Guidance 1.7 Methodology 1.8 Consultations 2 Cultural Heritage Databases 18 2.1 Statutorily Designated Features 2.2 Northamptonshire Heritage Environment Record 2.3 Peterborough Heritage Environment Record 3 Archaeological Background 24 3.1 Previous Archaeological Investigations within the PDA 3.2 Archaeological Investigations in the Vicinity 3.3 Archaeological Background 4. Historical Research 26 4.1 Synthesis 4.2 References 5. Impacts and Mitigation 27 5.1 Direct Impacts 5.2 Indirect Impacts 5.3 Mitigation 6. Assessment of Effects 30 6.1 Criteria used in the Assessment of Effects 6.2 Assessing Significance 6.3 Evaluation of the Significance of Predicted Effects 7. Summary 37 2 andrew josephs associates Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Consultancy East Northants RMF February 2012 Cultural Heritage Figures (after page 39) 1 Location Plan 2 Zone of Theoretical Visibility showing scheduled monuments and listed building groups 3 Scheduled Monuments and Listed Buildings 4 Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments within 1km of PDA 5 Location of Watching Brief in 2008 Appendices (after page 45) Appendix A Correspondence with Northamptonshire County Council Archaeological Adviser Appendix B Scheduled Monuments within 5km of PDA Appendix C Listed Structures within 2km of PDA Appendix D Glossary of Cultural Heritage Terms 3 andrew josephs associates Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Consultancy East Northants RMF February 2012 Cultural Heritage 1. Introduction 1.1 SCOPE 1.1.1 Cultural heritage is represented by a wide range of features that result from past human use of the landscape. These include historic structures, many still in use, above ground and buried archaeological monuments and remains of all periods, and artefacts of anthropological origin. In its broadest form cultural heritage is represented by the landscape and townscape itself. This report, written by Andrew Josephs BA (Hons), Cultural Heritage Consultant, presents the findings of the cultural heritage assessment for a proposed development at the East Northants Resource Management Facility (ENMRF), Stamford Road, Northamptonshire centred on National Grid Reference (NGR) TF 0080 0005. The Development Consent Order (DCO) application is by Augean South Limited and is for the alteration of existing and the construction of new facilities for the recovery and disposal of hazardous waste and disposal of low level radioactive waste. The full description of the development is contained with the Environmental and Planning Statements. 1.2 SETTING 1.2.1 The proposed development area (PDA) lies, approximately 2.5km north of the village of King’s Cliffe and 1.5km south-east of the village of Duddington. To the north of the PDA is Collyweston Great Wood, and agricultural land adjoins the western and southern boundaries. Beyond Collyweston Great Wood at a distance of 1.5km lies the southern edge of RAF Wittering. 1.2.2 The PDA lies wholly within Northamptonshire, approximately 600m west of the boundary with Peterborough City Council. The location of the PDA is shown on Figure 1. 1.3 RELEVANT LEGISLATION 1.3.1 The importance of cultural heritage is clearly recognised at both national and local levels. Certain features that are deemed to be of particular importance are given legal protection through the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (Scheduled Monuments), the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) and the Hedgerows Regulations 1997 (Hedgerows of Historic Importance). 1.4 NATIONAL POLICY AND GUIDANCE 1.4.1 In accordance with the EIA Regulations the significance of an effect should be identified as part of this cultural heritage assessment. This is achieved using a combination of the following published guidance and professional judgement. 4 andrew josephs associates Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Consultancy East Northants RMF February 2012 Cultural Heritage PPS 5 Planning for the Historic Environment: Historic Environment Planning Guide. March 2010. London. English Heritage 2008. Conservation Principles: Policies and Guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment. London. English Heritage 2011. The Setting of Heritage Assets: English Heritage guidance. English Heritage 2011. Seeing The History In The View: A Method For Assessing Heritage Significance Within Views English Heritage 2008 Archaeology and Mineral Extraction. London English Heritage 2008 Mineral Extraction and the Historic Environment. London. Minerals and Historic Environment Forum 2008 Mineral Extraction and Archaeology: A Practice Guide 1.4.2 The main source of guidance on how cultural heritage should be assessed is given in Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the Historic Environment (March 2010) which deals with all aspects of heritage and the historic environment, including listed buildings, conservation areas, registered parks and gardens, battlefields and archaeology. The introduction to PPS5 sets out the Government’s view of cultural heritage: 1.4.3 The Government’s overarching aim is that the historic environment and its heritage assets should be conserved and enjoyed for the quality of life they bring to this and future generations. To achieve this, the Government’s objectives for planning for the historic environment are: to deliver sustainable development by ensuring that policies and decisions concerning the historic environment: recognise that heritage assets are a non-renewable resource take account of the wider social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits of heritage conservation; and recognise that intelligently managed change may sometimes be necessary if heritage assets are to be maintained for the long term. to conserve England’s heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance by ensuring that: . decisions are based on the nature, extent and level of that significance, investigated to a degree proportionate to the importance of the heritage asset 5 andrew josephs associates Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Consultancy East Northants RMF February 2012 Cultural Heritage . wherever possible, heritage assets are put to an appropriate and viable use that is consistent with their conservation . the positive contribution of such heritage assets to local character and sense of place is recognised and valued; and . consideration of the historic environment is integrated into planning policies, promoting place-shaping. to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of our past by ensuring that opportunities are taken to capture evidence from the historic environment and to make this publicly available, particularly where a heritage asset is to be lost. 1.4.4 PPS5 sets out a number of policies that it states ‘ must be taken into account in development management decisions, where relevant’. Those most relevant to this planning application are: Policy HE6: Information requirements for applications for consent affecting heritage assets 10 HE6.1 Local planning authorities should require an applicant to provide a description of the significance of the heritage assets affected and the contribution of their setting to that significance. The level of detail should be proportionate to the importance of the heritage asset and no more than is sufficient to understand the potential impact of the proposal on the significance of the heritage asset. As a minimum the relevant historic environment record should have been consulted and the heritage assets themselves should have been assessed using appropriate expertise where necessary given the application’s impact. Where an application site includes, or is considered to have the potential to include, heritage assets with archaeological interest, local planning authorities should require developers to submit an appropriate desk-based assessment and, where desk-based research is insufficient to properly assess the interest, a field evaluation. HE6.2 This information together with an assessment of the impact of the proposal should be set out in the application (within the design and access statement when this is required) as part of the explanation of the design concept. It should detail the sources that have been considered and the expertise that has been consulted. Policy HE7: Policy principles guiding the determination of applications for consent relating to all heritage assets HE7.1 In decision-making local planning authorities should seek to identify and assess