9th May 2016, 03:17 PM
Marc Berger Wrote:I hope that you don't know how many times in the last few months I have been asked how come this is not a problem to other archaeologists but I still have all the finds that I have dug up.
Hi All
As a matter of interest an appeal decision (APP/Y507/W/15/1327969) may have a bearing on this.
The appeal was concerned with an applicant attempting to remove two conditions rating to archaeology, one of which was for excavation and the second that all the finds from the excavation should be deposited at the museum. The inspector decided that these conditions were reasonable, required, and fitted the impacts on the archaeology so were NPPF compliant.
In other words it's reasonable (in planning terms) to require a developer to hand over finds from an excavation so
Steven