Wandsworth Building Schools For The Future Project
TRIGPOINT Conservation & Planning has recently been successful in winning the tender to provide archaeological desk-top surveys for three school sites included in the Wandsworth Building Schools for the Future Project. These included the sites of Salesian College and Southfields Community College in London and Bradstow School in Broadstairs, Kent.
By a combination of site surveys, historical research and an investigation of the local Sites and Monuments Records, the desk-top surveys summarised the topographical, geological, archaeological and historical background of each study area. Using this information we were than able to advise on the potential impact that the proposed development may have on the archaeological resource and to propose mitigation strategies to minimise any impact on the in-situ archaeological remains.
The desktop surveys prepared for the two London schools have now been approved by English Heritage’s Greater London Archaeology Advisory Service, moving the redevelopment of these sites one step further forward.
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Developers
are frequently requested to produce archaeological desk-top
assessments to determine whether there are any significant
archaeological remains beneath a development site and
to draw up mitigation strategies to reduce the impact
of the proposed development on the archaeological resource.
