{"id":88927,"date":"2021-02-12T09:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T09:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=88927"},"modified":"2021-02-12T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T09:08:23","slug":"biodiversity-and-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biodiversity-and-archaeology\/88927\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting biodiversity and archaeology at Northern Arc site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Northern Arc scheme in Burgess Hill,\u00a0Mid Sussex is a 200-hectare strategic 3,500 home development being delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/homes-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homes England<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Burgess Hill area is rich in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/hs2-archaeologists\/79120\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archaeological finds<\/a>, with excavations in the local area uncovering flint tools suggesting local activity dating right back to the Stone Age.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting biodiversity<\/h3>\n<p>It is set within a mature landscape of habitats including ancient woodland, mature trees, species-rich hedgerows, semi-improved grassland, watercourses and ponds.<\/p>\n<p>Protecting and enhancing this existing habitat is vital to ensure the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/new-homes-west-sussex\/54595\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern Arc<\/a> has a long-term positive impact on local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biodiversity-net-gain\/75056\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biodiversity and wildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Archaeology is fundamental to understanding our common history<\/h3>\n<p>It provides an excellent opportunity to add value to development through placemaking, community engagement and the possible growth of local heritage tourism.<\/p>\n<p>All findings from the investigations at Burgess Hill will be entrusted to local museums adding to the understanding of the region\u2019s rich, diverse history.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeology South-East conducted site investigations in 2020 and 2021, starting with trenches dug along the line of one of the new roads, to investigate whether any archaeological remains that survived would be adversely affected by any construction work.<\/p>\n<p>Layers of topsoil were stripped back to reveal underlying deposits and the area of investigation was later broadened beyond the direct route of the new road.<\/p>\n<p>The investigations revealed interesting findings that showed evidence of continual historical use. There was however nothing of scale that would adversely affect the programme of works on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The archaeological report will be available in full on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midsussex.gov.uk\/planning-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mid Sussex District Council Planning Portal<\/a> and a summary of the findings will be included in Sussex Archaeological Collections, the scientific journal for archaeological fieldwork in Sussex.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Arc scheme in Burgess Hill,\u00a0Mid Sussex is a 200-hectare strategic 3,500 home development being delivered by Homes England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[463,13038,676,997,279,675,642],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-archaeology","8":"tag-building","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-development","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-heritage","13":"tag-placemaking"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protecting biodiversity and archaeology at Northern Arc site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Northern Arc scheme in Burgess Hill,\u00a0Mid Sussex is a 200-hectare strategic 3,500 home development being delivered by Homes England\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biodiversity-and-archaeology\/88927\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protecting biodiversity and archaeology at Northern Arc site\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Northern Arc scheme in Burgess Hill,\u00a0Mid Sussex is a 200-hectare strategic 3,500 home development being delivered by Homes England\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biodiversity-and-archaeology\/88927\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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