Policy information sourced from Runnymede Local Plan
EE7: Scheduled Monuments
Proposals for development will be required to conserve, and where appropriate, enhance the significance, historic features and importance of Scheduled Monuments and County Sites of Archaeological Importance and their settings. Proposals which improve public access to, or the understanding of, a Scheduled Monument or County Sites of Archaeological Importance in a manner consistent with its conservation, will be supported.
Development that adversely affects the physical survival, setting or overall heritage significance of any element of a Scheduled Monument or County Sites of Archaeological Importance or their settings will be resisted.
An archaeological assessment, and where appropriate the results of a site evaluation (and, should remains have been identified, an accompanying archaeological mitigation strategy) will be required to accompany a planning application for:
- Proposals for development on sites which affect, or have the potential to affect, Scheduled Monuments;
- Proposals for development on sites which affect, or have the potential to affect, County Sites of Archaeological Importance or Areas of High Archaeological Potential;
- Proposals for development on all other sites which exceed 0.4ha in size.
Where archaeological finds are identified the first consideration will be in situ preservation. Where it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Council that this is not feasible, the Council will require adequate excavation and an accurate record to be made of any archaeological remains which will be destroyed and the results to be made publicly accessible via the publication and archiving of any material recovered.
For more information please see the Local Plan