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Land on Broadway Road, Willersey

Gloucestershire Heritage Statement

for

Blue Cedar Homes

CA Project: 5830

March 2016

Land on Broadway Road, Willersey, Gloucestershire

Heritage Statement

CA Project: 5830

prepared by Chris Morley, Senior Heritage Consultant

date March 2016

checked by Chris Morley, Senior Heritage Consultant

date March 2016

approved by Chris Morley, Senior Heritage Consultant

signed

date March 2016

issue 01

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Land on Broadway Road, Willersey, Gloucestershire: Heritage Statement

Introduction

1.1 This Heritage Statement describes the heritage assessment and consultation

undertaken in respect of a recently approved outline planning application for a site

at Broadway Road, Willersey, Gloucestershire.

1.2 Outline consent for development of the site was refused by Cotswold District

Council on 14 August 2014 (application ref. 14/01739/OUT), but granted on appeal

on 5 January 2015 (Appeal ref. APP/F1610/A/14/2227938). A full planning

application will now be submitted in respect of this site, and this Heritage Statement

will inform that full planning application.

1.3 The site redline boundary for the full planning application, is the same as was

consented to, on appeal, as part of the outline planning application proposals. The

site boundary therefore remains unchanged.

1.4 This Heritage Statement has been commissioned by Blue Cedar Homes, and has

been prepared by Cotswold Archaeology, a Chartered Institute for Archaeologists

(CIfA) Registered Organisation (RO).

Location and proposals

1.5 The proposed development site (henceforth referred to as ‘the Site’) is c.1.4ha in

extent. It comprises a single field to the north of Broadway Road, south-west of

Field House, on the western edge of Willersey, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire.

Assessment and Consultation Undertaken

1.6 In December 2015 Cotswold Archaeology was commissioned by Blue Cedar

Homes to prepare a Heritage Statement to inform the outline planning application.

This Heritage Statement was produced and submitted as an appendix to that

application, which was approved on ?.

1.7 The Heritage Statement provided information on key heritage issues, informed by

consultation of the Historic England (HE) records for designated heritage assets

(including Scheduled Monuments, Listed buildings, Registered Parks and Gardens

and Registered Battlefields); the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire Historic

Environment Records (HERs); and the HE Archives repository of information on

archaeological sites and events. Searches of the HERs and HE Archives were

carried out in December 2015.


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1.8 The Heritage Statement was produced within the following legislative, planning

policy and guidance context: The Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act

(1953); National Heritage Act 1983 (amended 2002); Planning (Listed Buildings and

Conservation Areas) Act (1990); National Planning Policy Framework (2012);

National Planning Practice Guidance: Conserving and enhancing the historic

environment (2014); English Heritage: Conservation Principles: policies and

guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment (2008); and

Historic England: Historic Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning: Note 2:

Managing Significance in Decision-Taking (2015a); and Historic England: Historic

Environment Good Practice Advice in Planning: Note 3: The Setting of Heritage

Assets: a guidance document (2015b).

Indirect impact on proximate heritage assets

1.9 The Heritage Statement identified that no designated heritage assets are situated

within the Site, and that no Scheduled Monuments, Registered Parks or Gardens or

Historic Battlefields are situated within the broader environs of the Site (Fig. 1). A

number of Listed buildings were identified within the wider environs of the Site, the

majority within the Willersey Conservation Area which lies c. 290m to the north-east

of the Site at its closest extent.

Fig. 1 Site location and proximate designated heritage assets


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1.10 Beyond the Conservation Area, the Grade II Listed Cheltenham Cottages lie on

Broadway Road, c. 170m to the north-east of the Site, two Grade II Listed buildings

are located at Foxhill Manor c. 950m to the south-east, and one Grade II Listed

building is located at Bibsworth House c. 750m to the south-west.

1.11 Due to a combination of intervening topography, built form, vegetation and distance,

the potential for the proposed development to harm the significance of any of these

buildings through changing their setting was determined to be extremely low.

Direct impact on archaeological remains

4.1 The Heritage Statement identified that there are no known heritage assets located

within the Site. Extensive areas of medieval ridge and furrow were formerly present

within and around the Site, as recorded in the Gloucestershire HER and mapped by

the National Mapping Programme (NMP), and this suggests that, from the medieval

period through until the 1940s, the Site lay within the agricultural hinterland of

Willersey. Any surviving buried remains of ridge and furrow within the Site would not

be considered a heritage asset.

4.2 The Heritage Statement also identified a generalised potential for the presence of

buried archaeological remains of later prehistoric/Roman date, which are known to

be present within the wider landscape. Any unknown buried remains surviving within

the Site would not be anticipated to be of sufficient significance to require

preservation in situ or to otherwise pose a constraint to development within the Site.

Consultation

4.3 In an email to the planning officer in relation to the original outline application, dated

15 May 2014, Mr Charles Parry, Gloucestershire County Council Archaeological

Advisor, confirmed that he had been consulted in relation to the proposals at pre-

application stage, that the HER did not record any archaeology within the site, and

that he considered there to be a low risk for significant archaeological remains to

survive within the site. On that basis he recommended that no further archaeological

investigation or recording be required in connection with the application.

4.4 Mr Parry was consulted again on 15 February 2016, and asked whether it would be

necessary for him to change his advice in respect of the detailed planning

application for the Site. Mr Parry responded, via email, that if the site area subject of

the detailed application were the same as the site area subject of the previous


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outline application, then he could confirm that he would recommend no

archaeological investigation or recording be required.

Conclusions

4.5 There are no designated or non-designated heritage assets recorded within, or

within particular proximity to, the Site.

4.6 There is a low potential for significant unknown archaeological remains to survive

buried within the Site.

4.7 The potential for development within the Site to harm the significance of any

proximate Listed buildings, as a result of changes to their setting, is extremely low.

4.8 Mr Charles Parry, Gloucestershire County Council Archaeological Advisor, has been

consulted, and has confirmed that he would recommend no further archaeological

investigation or recording in connection with the application.

4.9 The development proposals are consistent with the provisions of National and Local

heritage policy.

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