Heritage Impact Assessment on Churchview, Oxhill, Warwickshire

The format and contents of this section of the report are an adaptation of the standards outlined in the Institute for Archaeologists' guidance paper for heritage impact assessments (IFA 2012). The work has involved the consultation of the available documentary evidence, including historical maps, and has been supplemented with a site visit. The format of the report is adapted from an Institute for Archaeologists Standard Guidance paper (IFA 2012). In summary, the work has involved: � Identifying the client's objectives � Identifying the cartographic and documentary sources available for consultation � Assembling, consulting and examining those sources � Identifying and collating the results of recent fieldwork � Site walkover The principal sources consulted in assessing this site were: � National Monuments Record The heritage values of the site will be assessed using English Heritage Conservation principles (2008) guidelines, which state that people value a place for many reasons beyond utility or personal association: for its distinctive architecture or landscape, the story it can tell about its past, its connection with notable people or events, its landform, flora and fauna, because they find it beautiful or inspiring, or for its role as a focus of a community. These values can be summarised as:Evidential value derives from the potential of a place to yield evidence about past human activity. � Historical value derives from the ways in which past people, events and aspects of life can be connected through a place to the present. � Aesthetic value derives from the ways in which people draw sensory and intellectual stimulation from a place. � Communal value derives from the meanings of a place for the people who relate to it, or for whom it figures in their collective experience or memory. An assessment has been made of the historical and archaeological background of Oxhill. The historic maps have been consulted and it has been determined that there is little evidence for earlier activity known on the proposal site. The report was request in respect to paragraph 128 of the NPPF, which requests consideration of the development on heritage assets. The church is a heritage asset as it is classed as a grade I listed building. Though the proposed development is in close proximity to the structure, there is only one view of the church that will be affected by the development and this is along Green Lane. However, the affect that this development will have here is minimal.