Planning consideration

Greater london archaeological priority areas

Areas of Greater London where there is significant known archaeological interest or potential for new discoveries

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• Design stage: Co-design
• Tags:
  • heritage
  • constraint
  • local plan
  • policies map

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• Github: Join the discussion
• Synonyms: No synonyms added
• Legislation: No legislation added
• Expected number of records: 1,015
• Frequency of updates: Quarterly
• Useful links:
  • Historic England guidance
• Technical specification: No specification added

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Related dataset

• Archaeological priority area:

  • View schema on Github

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Background information

Each planning consideration we work on passes through the stages of our design process, where we research and answer specific questions to help us collect more information.

Backlog

• Who asked for 'Greater london archaeological priority areas' data?

  Identified as a potentially high value consideration with possible national data already available

• What is the driver for the request?

  Other

• Which 2024 focus area does the request support?

  • Modern planning software
  • Faster local plans

Screen

• What is the 'Greater london archaeological priority areas' consideration?

  Archaeological Priority Areas (APAs) are areas where there is significant known archaeological interest or potential for new discoveries. APAs are used to help highlight where development might affect heritage assets. - Historic England

• Is there legislation that defines 'Greater london archaeological priority areas'?

  No

• Who, in law, is responsible for the planning consideration or makes decisions about 'Greater london archaeological priority areas'?

  • The respective London Boroughs

• Which organisations do we think should publish the data?

  • - Historic England
  • Greater London Authority

• Is the Greater london archaeological priority areas a trigger?

  Yes

  • What needs to be done because Greater london archaeological priority areas has acted as the trigger?

    An archaeological assessment, an archaeological planning condition

• Is the Greater london archaeological priority areas something to consult during plan making?

  Yes

  • Provide information about when Greater london archaeological priority areas is used during plan making

    When plan-making, planning officers will consult archaeological advisers on the plan’s spatial policies to developing a suitably robust underlying evidence base.

• Is there any Greater london archaeological priority areas data already available?

  Yes

  • What Greater london archaeological priority areas data is currently available?

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      • url: https://opendata-historicengland.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/historicengland::greater-london-archaeological-priority-areas-apas/about
      • name: Greater London archaeological priority areas (APAs)
      • fields: area_type;Description;APA Tier Type;GLHER Primary Ref;GLHER Resource ID;Shape_Area;Shape_Length
      • licence: OGL v3
      • coverage: National
      • publisher: Historic England
      • attribution: © Historic England [year] and for spatial data only add Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].
      • metadata_url: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/greater-london-archaeological-priority-area-guidelines/heag098-glaas-archaeological-priority-areas/

• Do we think the data should come from a single source?

  Yes, the data is already available as a complete dataset.

• Will a data standard be required?

  No

Research

• Do we understand the lifecycle of a Greater london archaeological priority areas?

• Do we understand how the data is created/produced?

• Where will or should the data be used?

• What other planning considerations does it interact with?

• Who are the statutory consultees for Greater london archaeological priority areas?

  Historic England, Greater London Authority

• Other than the statutory consultees who are the primary users of Greater london archaeological priority areas? How do we expect them to use Greater london archaeological priority areas?

• What are the planning needs for this data?

  When plan-making, planning officers will consult archaeological advisers on the plan’s spatial policies to developing a suitably robust underlying evidence base.

  When dealing with planning applications, planning officers will validate the application, ensuring that it meets the local authority’s local requirements, potentially through the requirement of an archaeological assessment, and consult Historic England when required and other interested parties as appropriate. Planning officers will also often add an archaeological planning condition, take advice from archaeological advisers before discharging conditions; and take action if conditions are not being complied with.

• Who are the types of users who might benefit from having access to Greater london archaeological priority areas data?

• What are some potential uses of Greater london archaeological priority areas data?

• What's the value of adding Greater london archaeological priority areas data to the platform?

• From what we have learnt so far are there any risks to making Greater london archaeological priority areas data available?

  Further research will need to be done into the validity of the data, regarding how up-to-date it is, as it was last updated 9th May 2024. We will need to review how regularly this is updated, and assess risks.

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3 updates

• Claire Miller (26 September 2024)

  As per some research we did, summarised in this blog on an analysis of local plans and local area requirements, we're confident that this consideration acts as an INPUT to the process of creating a local plan.

• Kieran Wint (05 September 2024)

  The only indicator of data update frequency we found was at the London datastore, but this does not contain all of the areas of Greater London.

• Kieran Wint (08 August 2024)

  The identified national dataset was last updated on 9th May 2024. We need to assess whether this is likely to mean data is incorrect, and look at how regularly this data is updated.

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Last updated: 2025-02-11 12:23:44