11th February 2009, 12:58 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Noddy
http://www.york.gov.uk/leisure/Local_his...rch_sites/
Quote:quote:There are seven Areas of Archaeological Importance (AAI's) in York. These are listed in Appendix D of the City of York Local Plan.
If you want to carry out work in one of these areas that disturbs, tips material on or floods the ground, you must complete an operations notice and send it to us. You can download an operations notice on the right hand side of this page. We will validate the notice and send it to the York Archaeological Trust (YAT), who will respond to the notice in one of the following ways:
that it has no interest in the operation, or
that it wishes to observe and record the operations (an archaeological watching brief), or
that it wishes to excavate the site in advance of the operation taking place. In this case the YAT can claim a period of up to four months and two weeks to carry out an excavation. You will not be under any duty to pay for the costs of any esulting archaeological work.
It is an offence to start work within six weeks of submitting the operations notice or to start work within an area of archaeological importance without completing an operations notice. It is also an offence to use a metal detector within an AAI.
While this isn't directly related to contractor lists as such I've never understood how, in the era of PPG16, polluter pays and all that, York City Council can force developers to use one contractor in the centre of York. Does this happen in other areas of the country? Is it just that I'm misreading this? After the 4 months and 2 weeks can the developer choose their own contractor/consultant? And what happens with post-ex costs? Why does the council not act as curator in these areas, and instead pass it on to a contractor? Am I being overly cynical about the situation??!!
This is a hangover from the duty of the trust in relation to the statutory area of archaeological importance. The Area of Archaeological Importance dates from before the separation of curatorial functions and digging (1979).
sorry already been answered.
I have a list of organisations who regularly undertake fieldwork within my patch, all of whom are RaOs. If a developer wants another organisation then I direct them to the IfA RaO List. (I have no idea if I am punctuating the abbreviations correctly). There are a few 1 man bands that operate in my region who do a very good job on small-scale work, utilities watching briefs etc. I probably send out the list of contractors about 3 or 4 times per year. The developers who ask for the list tend to be at the random punter end of the spectrum.