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George Osborne’s Planning Reforms: Brownfield Revolution or Archaeological Nightmare?

Last Friday Chancellor George Osborne announced a plan to build 200,000 homes on brownfield sites by 2020. The process puts the responsibility on the local authority for pre-approving planning on…

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Development Led Archaeology: a step-by-step guide

Your planning permission is agreed, your finance arranged, and your construction team ready to roll. But what’s this? A letter from the Local Planning Authority insisting that:

No development shall take place until the applicant, or their agents or successors in title, has secured the implementation of a programme of archaeology carried out in accordance with the Written Scheme of Investigation for an archaeological excavation, post excavation and publication exercise.” Continue reading “Development Led Archaeology: a step-by-step guide” »

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Rubicon’s Quality Assurance Recognition

Rubicon Heritage Services were recently confirmed as a Registered Organisation by the Institute for Archaeologists, the first Irish based company to be admitted to this quality assurance scheme. Following a…

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