With an increasing number of projects being local to within Gloucestershire, Urban Archaeology has joined the Stroud Building Design Association, a group of independent planning and design professionals who offer services related to the building and construction industry. The membership covers a wide variety of professions and disciplines offering help, advice and design expertise for the building industry and private residential clients.
Encompassing everything from planning & infrastructure, through architecture & design, to ecological impact & sustainability, Stroud BDA’s combined skills cover everything you need to plan, design and manage a project. Stroud BDA didn't have an archaeologist member, so it seemed a good fit!
Urban Archaeology's recent local projects have included the ongoing recording work on Gloucester Cathedral, watching brief on a service trench through a graveyard, and evaluation and consultancy work within a medieval church. All of these were undertaken under the 'Faculty' licence system, the Church of England's equivalent of planning permission and listed building control.
If you have a development project and would like advice on archaeology and heritage, and on how Urban Archaeology may be able to help you work through the process, please contact Chiz Harward.