The Northumberland County Council (A1 – South East Northumberland Link Road (Morpeth Northern Bypass)) Development Consent Order 2015

Archaeology

16.—(1) The authorised development must not commence until a programme of mitigation of the scheme’s effects on archaeology and heritage assets, in accordance with mitigation items 34 to 38 of the CEMP, including assessment of the evaluation excavations that have taken place, has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(2) The approved programme of mitigation must comprise 3 stages of work. Each stage must be completed and approved by the relevant planning authority before it can be discharged. In particular—

(a) no authorised development or mitigation is to commence until a written scheme of investigation, compliant with the CEMP, has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority;

(b) archaeological recording required by the CEMP must be completed in accordance with the approved written scheme of investigation no later than completion of the topsoil and subsoil strip; and recording of the earthworks must be completed before the start of construction; and

(c) all analysis reporting publication and archiving must be completed in accordance with the approved written scheme of investigation no later than 6 months following completion of fieldwork.

(3) Photographic records of the settings of the 3 heritage assets, identified in table 6.7 “Residual Operational Effects” in chapter 6 of the environmental statement, must be made in accordance with the written scheme of investigation and a summary report issued to the relevant planning authority before any works affecting the settings of those heritage assets is commenced.

(4) The authorised development must not commence until a fencing scheme to ensure that all areas of archaeological earthworks (including ridge and furrow earthworks) are protected from accidental damage throughout the construction of the authorised development has been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority.

(5) The fencing required by the approved fencing scheme must be erected before the construction of the link road is commenced and kept in good repair throughout the construction of the authorised development.