Whats in their briefs?

[Marc Berger]

Exactly Prentice, What law?

Under NPPF planning conditions should not normally be discharged until archiving is complete.

Is NPPF a law? And where in NPPF does it mention that the condition is discharged when archiving is complete.

141 is the only Paragraph that mentions archiving but it uses archives as evidence and is presumably intended for pre application decision making

141. Local planning authorities should make information about the significance of
the historic environment gathered as part of plan-making or development
management publicly accessible. They should also require developers to
record and advance understanding of the significance of any heritage assets
to be lost (wholly or in part) in a manner proportionate to their importance
and the impact, and to make this evidence (and any archive generated)
publicly accessible.30 However, the ability to record evidence of our past
should not be a factor in deciding whether such loss should be permitted.

How can it not be a factor if it is a condition?

What I would also like to see is briefs should be within the six tests for NPPF
http://planningguidance.communities.gov....pf-policy/

I think that if planning archaeologists looked at this that they would see that the only available CIFA standard that they could endorse post application is a Watching brief. I don't think that evaluation or building recording can get passed

the ability to record evidence of our past
should not be a factor in deciding whether such loss should be permitted

and that includes any contrived surveys like topographic or geophysics survey.

I take some comfort from this website http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/pla...nd-surveys which I think also presents a correct CIFA view of NPPF

Archaeological implications will be a material consideration for the Local Planning Authority when making a planning decision. If further archaeological work is necessary this can be secured, either by the use of a planning condition or by a legal agreement under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

In other cases, particularly small-scale development, recording of archaeological remains during development may be advised; this is known as a watching brief and will normally be secured by a planning condition.

Come on show us your briefs or lack of them or that in fact in most of the country archaeologists are doing all the work pre application and in places like Lincolnshire that the LPAs don't need to pay for monitors for watching brief work.