Measham Ridge and Furrow

What is the Ridge and Furrow?

Why are these fields not considered an asset to Measham, why are they not mentioned in any report?

Here is an extract of a letter sent to the planners

Dear Mrs Worrell

22 March 2013

Notifications under Circular 01/2001, Circular 08/2009 &

T&CP (Development Management Procedure) Order 2010

MEASHAM WATERSIDE, BURTON ROAD, MEASHAM, LEICESTERSHIRE Application No 13/00141/OUTM

Thank you for your letter of 13 March 2013 notifying us of the application for planning permission relating to the above site. We do not wish to comment in detail, but offer the following general observations.

English Heritage Advice

With respect to the impact of the proposed Development upon the Character of the Conservation Area we refer you to our guidance document 'The Setting of Historic Assets' see http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/setting-heritage-assets/

We note the archaeological potential in relation to prehistoric, Roman and industrial period remains outlined in the ULAS archaeological assessment [ULAS Report No 2012-131]. In addition we draw your attention to the medieval / post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation remains clearly visble in a 1945 RAF air photo reproduced as figure 8 of the above report. The area of surviving ridge and furrow may offer additional protection to earlier buried remains at this location. The western half of these strips appear from Google Earth to have survived to the present day, the eastern portion being apparently leveled. We refer you in this regard and in all respects concerning archaeological matters to the detailed advice of Richard Clark Principle Development Control Archaeologist at Leicestershire County Council, who should be consulted by your authority and whose recommendations should be considered by your authority in advance of determination in line with section 12 of the National Planning Policy Framework which treats issues of the historic environment.

Recommendation

We would urge you to address the above issues, and recommend that the application should be determined in accordance with national and local policy guidance, and on the basis of your specialist conservation advice. It is not necessary for us to be consulted again. However, if you would like further advice, please contact us to explain your request.

Yours sincerely
Helen Ensor
Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas 
cc. Richard Clark, Principle Development Control Archaeologist, Leicestershire County Council 

So Richard Clark has been copied in?

This shows the Ridge and Furrow