Peter Burgess
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You may be interested in a hitherto neglected aspect of site protection and conservation.
This relates to the scheduling of Ancient Monuments, administered by English Heritage, or CADW in Wales.
In Reigate there are a number of old sand mines and tunnels in the town centre. Much of them underlie Reigate Castle which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. In discussion with English Heritage, we raised the question about whether the protection offered to the surface features would apply to any underground features or structures as well. EH more or less said they had never really thought about it, but did confirm that this is the case.
So if any natural cave/mine/tunnel system underlies a SAM, the level of protection offered to the surface features will apply equally to the underground stuff as well.
In practice, this means obtaining consent for any alteration, excavation, conservation work etc from Eh/CADW beforehand.
Thoughts?
This relates to the scheduling of Ancient Monuments, administered by English Heritage, or CADW in Wales.
In Reigate there are a number of old sand mines and tunnels in the town centre. Much of them underlie Reigate Castle which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. In discussion with English Heritage, we raised the question about whether the protection offered to the surface features would apply to any underground features or structures as well. EH more or less said they had never really thought about it, but did confirm that this is the case.
So if any natural cave/mine/tunnel system underlies a SAM, the level of protection offered to the surface features will apply equally to the underground stuff as well.
In practice, this means obtaining consent for any alteration, excavation, conservation work etc from Eh/CADW beforehand.
Thoughts?