Do you have any comments on the assessment criteria and scoring system?

Comment

Representation ID: 8274

Received: 03/09/2021

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

The introduction and summary sections lack consistency in their inclusion of archaeological sites and historic landscapes. It is unclear how the independent panel will be constituted and how it will be used, notably in respect of sites at the 'lower end of the approval threshold' . The scoring system is not detailed in full, and seems most applicable to buildings/structures, significantly less so to archaeological sites. The conflation of rarity and representativeness is not well explained/justified. The lack of recognition of the County HER, the primary and most completed curated register of heritage assets in the district is an omission.