Strategic housing development
Archaeology for Strategic Housing Development in Cambridgeshire
On a strategic housing allocation, archaeology is a multi-year programme item that interacts with infrastructure delivery, phasing and sales release.
- Programme horizon
- Multi-year, phased
- Clear first
- Spine infrastructure and drainage
- Cash flow lever
- Phase-based discharge
- Long tail
- Reporting, archive and publication
Why this scheme type carries the requirement it does
Large allocations almost always contain archaeology somewhere. The commercial question is not whether, but how the archaeological programme is sequenced so that each parcel is cleared before it is needed, without paying for the whole site years in advance.
The approach that keeps it proportionate
Push for phase-based condition wording, evaluate the whole site early enough to plan intelligently, and target mitigation parcel by parcel. Spine infrastructure and drainage usually need clearing first, because everything else depends on them.
Questions
Common questions on this
Should we evaluate the whole allocation at once?
Usually yes for evaluation, because it lets you plan phasing and price the liability, and no for mitigation, which is better done parcel by parcel as each phase is needed.
Project review
Archaeology on a strategic housing development scheme?
Send the footprint, the depth of disturbance and the planning position. We will set out the requirement and the programme it implies.