3rd August 2006, 05:14 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Sparky I would suggest that this is very grey area slumbering inbetween PPG16 and submission of an Environmental Impact Assessment/Statement. It mainly down to the insistence of the local curators and other statutory bodies to get these treated responsibly.
I don't think that Sparky's 'grey area slumbering' is actually that grey (or that somnolent). My understanding is that the Highways Agency (at least in England) use Oxford Archaeology as archaeological consultants (and I have indeed worked on a road related project where members of OAU staff made regular monitoring visits).
I imagine that in many cases this is a preferable arrangement when road and bridge schemes are not covered by local authority curators (such as schemes that are through Act of Parliament statutory undertakings) and/or where they cross one or more local authority boundaries and could fall under the jurisdiction of one or more curators.
Maybe someone from OAU would be able to say whether they contact local curators as a matter of courtesy in such circumstances. I also don't know whether similar agency agreements cover Scotland, Wales and NI.