Core Strategy Preferred Options (Revised October 2008)
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Core Strategy Preferred Options (Revised October 2008)
Introduction
Representation ID: 3377
Received: 05/12/2008
Respondent: Essex County Council
Rochford Council have commissioned a Historic Environment Characterisation Project which is identified as part of the evidence base on page 11, and within the core strategy Preferred Options the historic environment is mentioned under a number of sections. It is clearly identified under Priority 10 as part of providing a well managed environment.
There is a lack of policies under either the Environmental Issues or Character of Place sections demonstrating how the core strategy will promote consideration and enhancement of the historic environment or how the historic environment will be used to shape place. Under Character of Place the policies all relate to the historic built environment and there is little which identifies Rochford's important historic landscape and archaeological deposits. Similarly the Historic Environment is identified under the Environmental issues both in the introduction and in the section on the Crouch and Blackwater, however it is necessary to clearly identify how the District are going to protect their Historic Environment.
It is recommended that an additional section be added in Environmental issues on the Historic Environment of the District. A suggested wording is:
Protection and Enhancement of the Historic Environment
We are committed to the protection, promotion and enhancement of the diverse historic landscape and extensive surviving archaeological deposits of the District. There is the potential to protect and enhance the historic environment assets and their surroundings both within development areas, and in the rural and coastal landscape.
The historic environment of Rochford District has developed through a history of human activity that spans over 450,000 years. Much of the resource lies hidden beneath the ground in the form of archaeological deposits. Other elements such as the historic landscape, the pattern of field, farms, woods and grazing marsh which characterise the District, are a highly visible record of millennia of agriculture, industry and commerce. Of particular significance are the coastal, island and estuarine areas where multi-period landscapes reflecting the exploitation of coastal and marshland resource survive. Rochford District contains five scheduled monuments; these range from the a burial mound at plumberow to a Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Battery dating to the Second World War The District also includes the important historic medieval market towns of Rochford and Rayleigh.
ENV ? Protection and enhancement of the Historic Environment
We will work to preserve and enhance the Historic Environment resource through working with our partners and the planning process
We will ensure the appropriate recording of Historic Environment assets which cannot be physically preserved.
ROCHFORD CORE STRATEGY PREFERRED OPTIONS
Thank you for consulting the historic Environment Management Team of Essex County Council on the Rochford Core Strategy Preferred Options.
Rochford Council have commissioned a Historic Environment Characterisation Project which is identified as part of the evidence base on page 11, and within the core strategy Preferred Options the historic environment is mentioned under a number of sections. It is clearly identified under Priority 10 as part of providing a well managed environment.
There is a lack of policies under either the Environmental Issues or Character of Place sections demonstrating how the core strategy will promote consideration and enhancement of the historic environment or how the historic environment will be used to shape place. Under Character of Place the policies all relate to the historic built environment and there is little which identifies Rochford's important historic landscape and archaeological deposits. Similarly the Historic Environment is identified under the Environmental issues both in the introduction and in the section on the Crouch and Blackwater, however it is necessary to clearly identify how the District are going to protect their Historic Environment.
It is recommended that an additional section be added in Environmental issues on the Historic Environment of the District. A suggested wording is:
Protection and Enhancement of the Historic Environment
We are committed to the protection, promotion and enhancement of the diverse historic landscape and extensive surviving archaeological deposits of the District. There is the potential to protect and enhance the historic environment assets and their surroundings both within development areas, and in the rural and coastal landscape.
The historic environment of Rochford District has developed through a history of human activity that spans over 450,000 years. Much of the resource lies hidden beneath the ground in the form of archaeological deposits. Other elements such as the historic landscape, the pattern of field, farms, woods and grazing marsh which characterise the District, are a highly visible record of millennia of agriculture, industry and commerce. Of particular significance are the coastal, island and estuarine areas where multi-period landscapes reflecting the exploitation of coastal and marshland resource survive. Rochford District contains five scheduled monuments; these range from the a burial mound at plumberow to a Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Battery dating to the Second World War The District also includes the important historic medieval market towns of Rochford and Rayleigh.
ENV ? Protection and enhancement of the Historic Environment
We will work to preserve and enhance the Historic Environment resource through working with our partners and the planning process
We will ensure the appropriate recording of Historic Environment assets which cannot be physically preserved
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
