Issue - meetings

To note the findings of Phase 1 of the heritage work undertaken to inform the emerging Local Plan.

The Local Plans and New Communities Manager presented a report on the first phase of the heritage work untaken to inform the allocation of development in the emerging Local Plan and development management policies guiding the location and form of the development. Phase 1 of the work examined the sensitivity of heritage assets around the main towns and key villages and had been compiled by Oxford Archaeology.

Areas of discussion included:

·         Members being asked to identify any anomalies and to feedback.

·         The works had been compiled by consultants working out of the Oxford offices.

·         An explanation being requested as to why the Landscape report had covered Hatfield Heath but the Heritage report had not.

·         The need to check for consistency of the Phase 2 sites. The assumption had been made that the base data would be the same but there appeared to have been omissions in the Heritage report.

·         Typos were identified in respect of the River ‘Stour’ and ‘Chesterfield’

The Chair said that both reports were very good and asked that this information be fed back to the consultants.

The Group noted the report.