Heritage and Archaeology – Page 9
Heritage significance, harm tests, listed building consent and archaeological evidence.
Heritage and Archaeology articles – page 9
210 articlesSolar panels on a listed building: consent and reversibility
Visibility, loss of fabric and reversibility are the three questions a conservation officer asks. Here is where panels tend to be accepted and what the application should contain.
Registered parks and gardens: the consultation trigger
There is no registered park consent. What registration brings is designated heritage asset status and a statutory consultation that catches development in the setting as well as the site.
Listed building enforcement and the criminal offence
Section 9 of the 1990 Act makes unconsented works to a listed building an offence regardless of intent, and listed building enforcement notices are not time limited.
Shopfronts in conservation areas: consent and evidence
Permitted development does not cover shop front alterations, and conservation area duties raise the bar. Here is the consent trio, the recurring refusal reasons and the evidence pack that gets a decision.
Demolition in a conservation area: when permission is needed
Conservation area consent was replaced in 2013 by a requirement for planning permission for relevant demolition. Here is what that covers, what is excluded and what the application needs.
Structuring a statement of heritage significance
A heritage statement fails when it assesses impact before it has established significance. Here is the order the assessment should follow and what each section has to prove.
Searching a Historic Environment Record before you apply
The Historic Environment Record holds the local archaeological and heritage data that national lists do not. Here is how to request a search and what to do with the results.
Watching briefs and archaeological conditions on small sites
A watching brief means an archaeologist attends your groundworks. It is the proportionate answer on most small sites, and the programme risk is manageable if you plan for it.
Replacement windows in a listed building
Windows carry a large share of a listed building's interest, so consent starts from repair. Secondary glazing is the usual answer, and slim double glazing succeeds only on the right building.
Enabling development for a heritage asset: the tests
Enabling development is a narrow exception, not a viability argument with a heritage label. It turns on an evidenced conservation deficit, a minimum quantum and an obligation that actually delivers the repairs.
Using a conservation area appraisal in your application
The appraisal is the council's own account of what makes your area special. Designing against it answers most of the objection before the application is submitted.
Historic building recording levels 1 to 4 explained
Recording levels run from a basic photographic record at Level 1 to a full analytical record with documentary research at Level 4. The level drives fee, programme and content.
Archaeological trial trenching: what evaluation proves
Trial trenching converts an unknown archaeological liability into a costed mitigation scheme. The sample, the layout and the timing all need agreeing before the machine arrives.
Written scheme of investigation: what it must contain
The WSI turns an archaeological condition into a programme with a method and an end point. What it must contain, who approves it and why archive deposition is the hard part.
Less than substantial harm and the public benefits balance
Less than substantial harm covers everything short of the very serious end, so treating it as a synonym for minor is the commonest error. How to run the balance so it survives challenge.
Setting of a heritage asset: the staged assessment
Setting is not the view of the asset. It is the surroundings in which it is experienced, and the assessment has to work through significance before it reaches effect.
Curtilage listing: which structures are covered
A stable block nobody thinks is listed can be listed. The 1948 date and a three part test decide it, and getting the answer wrong is a criminal matter.
Listed building consent for internal alterations
Listing covers the inside of the building as much as the outside. Here is where the section 7 threshold falls, and the evidence that gets an internal scheme approved.
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