HeritageCollective. Heritage Evidence - Appendix. Dr Jonathan Edis BA MA PhD MIFA IHBC

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1 HeritageCollective Heritage Evidence - Appendix Dr Jonathan Edis BA MA PhD MIFA IHBC Llandinam Repowering and Extension Conjoined Wind Farm Inquiry (Powys) Session 1: SSAC On behalf of CeltPower Heritage Collective Project Ref: 13/0928

2 APPENDIX 1 JONATHAN D. EDIS, BA, MA, PhD, MIFA, IHBC Nationality British Year of Birth 1958 Profession Heritage Consultant Specialisation Historic environment, archaeology and historic landscapes POSITION IN GROUP EQUITY PARTNER, HERITAGE COLLECTIVE LLP Year of joining Group 2010 KEY QUALIFICATIONS Partner in Heritage Collective LLP with 30 years experience in archaeology and the historic environment obtained in the public and private sectors. From 1982 to 1983 employed as an archaeologist by the Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Excavation Committee on Roman and Medieval excavations, mainly in Southwark. From 1983 to 1989 employed in Fortress House, Savile Row, as a cartographic draughtsman and later as a curatorial officer in the Air Photographs Unit of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) responsible for mapping of prehistoric and later remains on Dartmoor and East Kent, and for the development of a classification system for English Heritage s Monuments Protection Programme. From 1989 to 2000 employed as a conservation officer in the Planning Department of Bedfordshire County Council, providing advice on applications for listed building consent, planning permission and conservation area consent to what were at that time the three District Councils in Bedfordshire known respectively as North Bedfordshire Borough Council, Mid Beds District Council, and South Beds District Council. From 2000 to 2010 employed as a heritage consultant by CgMs Limited, being Director and Head of Historic Buildings from 2003 to Responsible for managing a team that at its height in 2008 had grown to more than 20 professional and support staff in offices in London, Cheltenham, Birmingham and Newark. Extensive involvement in major public inquiry and EIA/ES work throughout the U.K., including a large quantity of work in the renewables sector since Since 2010 has continued heritage consultancy as one of the seven equity Partners of Heritage Collective LLP, involving further expert input into public inquiries and large schemes. Career total of appeals to date includes expert evidence at nearly 100 public inquiries and more than 100 other appeals by way of hearing and written representations, all involving impacts on the historic environment that is, listed buildings, scheduled ancient monuments, registered parks and gardens, historic battlefields, conservation areas, locally listed buildings and other heritage assets, including World Heritage Sites and undesignated historic and prehistoric landscapes. Experience includes listed building enforcement appeals and prosecution, the latter in both Crown Court and Magistrates Court proceedings. Expert evidence has also been given in the London County Court in relation to listed building consent issues. Witness statement for High Court action in Arndale Properties Ltd, R (on the application of) v Worcester City Council [Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, March 13, 2008, [2008] EWHC 678 (Admin)], in which the unlawful designation of a conservation area was quashed. More than 50 cases involving applications for listing and delisting buildings, including several applications for certificates of immunity from listing and cases involving building preservation notices. Applications for scheduled monument consent, and advice on

3 applications subject to the Ecclesiastical Exemption. Experience of public inquiries in Wales, and of development in Northern Ireland, including acting as a consultant to the Department of Social Development in respect of major urban regeneration in Belfast. Publications include Antiquity 1989, vol. 63, No. 238, pp as Edis J. et al. An Archaeologist s guide to the classification of cropmarks and soilmarks, Church Monuments 2001, vol.16, pp 'Beyond Thomas Kirby: Monuments of the Mordaunt Family and their Circle, , and Bedfordshire Archaeology 2001, vol. 24, pp.76-80, The late medieval origins of the Town House at Kempston Church End. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS PhD The Totternhoe School of Masons c.1567 to c.1618: A Midland stone-carving workshop producing funerary monuments in the Dutch style, De Montfort University MA with Distinction in Architectural Building Conservation, De Montfort University BA in History, York University Qualified Cartographic Draughtsman (Civil Service Examination) Member of the Institute for Archaeologists (MIfA), Member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) EXPERIENCE RECORD Note: The following list of projects since 1989 is highly selective and should be regarded as representative of some of the larger cases undertaken present HERITAGE COLLECTIVE LLP Equity Partner HS2: Technical expert advising on heritage impacts throughout the Euston/London and Rural South section of the proposed high speed rail link. Llanishen Reservoir, Cardiff: Environmental Statement (ES) Chapter, application for listed building consent and expert evidence at reconvened inquiry (following earlier High Court proceedings) in relation to a mixed use scheme for 300 houses within the grade II listed reservoir embankment. Royal Exchange Quarter, Belfast: Advice to the Department of Social Development on proposals for retail-led mixed use redevelopment involving substantial demolition within a conservation area. Bramstead to Twinstead Tee Connection, Suffolk: Advice on behalf of National Grid in relation to a new power line affecting listed buildings including Hintlesham Hall, listed grade I. Twyford Abbey, Ealing, London: Enabling development application for a 60 unit housing scheme on Metropolitan Open Land to fund the restoration of a grade II listed Gothic revival mansion dating from c Kelmarsh wind farm, Northamptonshire: Supplementary Environmental Information (SEI) and expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a wind farm affecting the setting of a number of heritage assets including Kelmarsh Hall, listed grade I, and the registered battlefield of Naseby, Sutton Coldfield Postal Depot, Birmingham: Listed building consent for the demolition of 50% of a U.S. military postal depot erected in 1942, and planning permission for the erection of about 50 dwellings, for Royal Mail.

4 Hamilton Lane, Scraptoft, Leicester: Housing extension (c.300 units) affecting the setting of the earthworks of a deserted medieval village, scheduled as an ancient monument. Nun Wood wind farm, Bedfordshire: SEI and expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a 12-turbine wind farm on the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, affecting a range of heritage assets. Berkeley Vale wind farm, Gloucestershire: Expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a wind farm affecting the setting of Berkeley Castle and other heritage assets. Le Spa, Cirencester: Enabling development scheme on the fringe of a conservation area to fund the restoration and conversion of a historic building from a spa to a care home. Chiplow wind farm, Norfolk: SEI and expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a wind farm affecting the setting of Houghton Hall and its registered park, and the Iron Age hillfort at Bloodgate Hill. Stanton Windmill, Suffolk: Expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a development of 100 new houses affecting the setting of a grade II* working windmill. Winwick wind farm, Northamptonshire: SEI and expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a wind farm affecting Winwick Manor and Winwick Church, both listed grade II*. St Edmundsbury, Suffolk: Acting as expert witness on behalf of an architect who was prosecuted by the Council for alleged unauthorised works to a grade II listed barn. Prosecution abandoned by Council after second witness statement. Batsworthy Cross wind farm, Devon: SEI and expert evidence at inquiry in relation to a wind farm affecting a number of listed buildings to the south of Exmoor. Church Field Road, Sudbury: ES in relation to the impacts of an extension of the Chilton Industrial Estate on the setting of Chilton Hall and its associated church CgMs LIMITED Heritage Consultant , Director and Head of Historic Buildings from Wood Wharf, Docklands: Overall responsibility for ES and input into planning and listed building applications for a major extension to Canary Wharf, including the effects of several skyscrapers and a new canal cutting into Blackwall Basin, the oldest tidal basin in the world, listed grade I, built Cross River Tram, London: Overall responsibility for assessment of impacts along the route options from the Camden Town to Brixton areas, mainly on listed buildings and conservation areas. Camden Town Underground Station, London: Expert evidence at inquiry on behalf of Camden Market in relation to the proposed redevelopment of the station. Twickenham Riverside, London: Expert evidence on behalf of the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames in relation their proposal to demolish a redundant 1930s lido next to the River Thames. Doon Street Tower, London: Expert evidence on behalf of the London Borough of Lambeth in support of the Coin Street Community Builders proposal for a 144m residential tower affecting the South Bank Conservation Area and the setting of the Royal Festival Hall and Royal National Theatre. King s Cross Station: ES in relation to the impacts of the western concourse extension. RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire: Expert evidence on behalf of Cherwell District Council in relation to proposals for the redevelopment of the Cold War air base, including the demolition of a number of hardened aircraft shelters within a conservation area. Crown and Manor, Hackney, London: Public inquiry in relation to the redevelopment of a 1930s canal-side boys club with a multi storey residential block. Bata Estate, East Tilbury, Essex: Public inquiry into a 300-dwelling extension to East Tilbury, affecting the conservation area centred on Tomas Bata s modernist village designed by Garfik and Gahura and based on the town of Zlin in the Czech Republic. Woburn, Bedfordshire: Expert evidence on behalf of Bedfordshire County Council in relation to an inquiry into a minerals application for a bentonite quarry affecting the Woburn Conservation Area. Hastings, Sussex: Acting as expert witness in defence of a private individual prosecuted by the Council for unauthorised works to a grade II listed building.

5 Rookery Pit, Bedfordshire: Expert evidence on behalf of Bedfordshire County Council in relation to a landfill proposal affecting the outward view from Ampthill Park and Houghton House. Greenwich Market, London: Overall responsibility for ES as part of redevelopment of Greenwich Market for hotel-led uses, affecting listed buildings and the Greenwich Conservation Area, and the setting of the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage Site. Expert evidence given at public inquiry. Commerce Road, London: Expert evidence in respect of a proposal to redevelop land at Brentford Lock, partly within the Grand Union Canal Conservation Area, involving demolition. Adhesives Factory, Ladywell, London: Expert evidence in relation to redevelopment of land in a conservation area involving demolition of a 19 th /20 th century factory structure. The TRAD site, Pelican Wharf, London: Public inquiry in relation to redevelopment of land at Three Mills, on the River Lea, affecting a conservation area and the setting of listed buildings. Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, Berkshire: Public inquiry involving enabling development and conversion of a listed country house to residential and office uses. St Joseph's College, Upholland, Lancashire: Two public inquiries into separate enabling development proposals for the conversion and preservation of a large Roman Catholic seminary, listed grade II and built in phases from c.1880 to c Bridge Street, Guildford: Three successive public inquiries into proposals for the redevelopment of riverside land within the Guildford Conservation Area for casino and hotel uses. Defoe Road, London: Successive public inquiries into proposals for a housing scheme in Defoe Road, Hackney, affecting the setting of listed buildings. Craven Hill Gardens, Chalk Farm, London: Public inquiry into a new town house within a conservation area. Manor Annex, Aldershot: Public inquiry into a mixed use and residential scheme affecting a conservation area. Wimbledon College, London: Enforcement inquiry relating to an alleged unauthorised roof on a newly constructed sports hall, affecting a conservation area and nearby listed buildings. Courtlands Farm, Banstead, Surrey: Public inquiry into the proposed redevelopment of a group of concrete ammunition shelters dating from World War II. Cinderella Shoe Factory, Worcester: Public inquiry into the demolition of an early 20 th century shoe factory, and a successful High Court challenge to the designation of the Boughton Conservation Area. National Society for Epilepsy, Chalfont, Buckinghamshire: Public inquiry relating to the redevelopment of an Edwardian cottage hospital, part of which was listed grade II. 22 Cross Street, Islington: Public inquiry involving redevelopment and demolition in a conservation area Poplar High Street, Tower Hamlets: Public inquiry involving demolition and redevelopment in a conservation area. Wind farm at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex: Two public inquiries into a wind farm affecting the setting of the grade I listed Saxon chapel known as St Peter on the Wall, dating from the 7 th century and lying across the Roman fort of Othona, a scheduled monument. The development was allowed in , then quashed in the High Court after a challenge on non-heritage issues, and then allowed again at a second public inquiry in Middlemoor wind farm, Northumberland: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting registered parks at Hulne and Alnwick, and other heritage assets including an iron Age hillfort at Ros Castle. Mynydd y Betws wind farm, Carmarthenshire: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting recently scheduled prehistoric cairns and other structures, including the earthwork remains of Penlle r Castell. Poplar Lane wind farm, Shropshire: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting a number of heritage assets including the setting of Willoughbridge Lodge, a 16 th century hunting lodge listed grade II*. Swinford wind farm, Northamptonshire: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting Stanford Hall, listed grade I, and its registered park. Hempnall wind farm, Norfolk: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting the setting of the Church of St Margaret, Hempnall, and the Hempnall Conservation Area. Linton wind farm, Cambridgeshire and Essex: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting a number of heritage assets including the Linton Conservation Area.

6 Toft Hill wind farm, Northumberland: Conjoined public inquiry into a wind farm affecting the setting of a Neolithic stone circle called the Duddo stones, and the registered battlefield of Flodden, Haining Croft, Hexham, Northumberland: Public inquiry into a housing scheme within the Hexham Conservation Area. Broad Street, Portsmouth: Public inquiry into a waterfront housing scheme within the Portsmouth Conservation Area. Bedlington Old School, Bedlington, Northumberland: Public inquiry into the demolition and redevelopment of the old school, within the Bedlington Conservation Area and affecting the setting of the Church of St Cuthbert, listed grade I. Warley Hospital, Essex: Public inquiry into residential development of the grade II listed former hospital, following partial conversion. 179 Sturton Street, Cambridge: Public inquiry into demolition and redevelopment of a residential corner site within the Cambridge Conservation Area. Coopers Lane, Evesham, Gloucestershire: Public inquiry into redevelopment affecting the setting of a grade II listed house dating to the 17 th and 18 th centuries. Keble House, Fairford, Gloucestershire: Public inquiry relating to proposed new buildings in the Fairford Conservation Area. 9 Young Street, Kensington, London: Public inquiry relating to an extension to a grade II listed building within the Knightsbridge Conservation Area. 359 Upper Street, Islington: Public inquiry into demolition of an unlisted building and redevelopment within the Islington Conservation Area. Expedier House, Portsmouth Road, Hindhead: Public inquiry into the construction of an extra care home involving the conversion of a historic building. Lambeth College, Tooley Street, London: Public inquiry into the addition of an external lift core as part of the conversion of the grade II listed college to a boutique hotel. Stamford, Lincolnshire: Public inquiry into commercial and industrial redevelopment affecting Burghley House and its registered park and garden. Fewcott wind farm, Oxfordshire: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting the setting of a number of conservation areas, and the registered parks at Aynhoe and Rousham. Cotton wind farm, Cambridgeshire: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting the setting of Toseland Hall, a 16 th century manor house listed grade II*. Coln St Aldwyns, Goucestershire: Public inquiry into a proposed new house within the Coln St Aldwyns Conservation Area, affecting the setting of the adjacent parish church. Baumber wind farm, Lincolnshire: Public inquiry into a wind farm affecting the setting of a number of listed buildings, including churches at Baumber and Wisperton. Amesbury, Wiltshire: Public inquiry into the redevelopment of a house to form retirement accommodation, affecting the setting of a listed lodge dating to c York Place, Brighton: Enforcement inquiry relating to unauthorised works to the roofs and front elevations of a terrace of Victorian buildings within the Brighton Conservation Area BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Conservation Officer Development Management: Commenting on applications for listed building consent, conservation area consent and planning permission affecting historic buildings and areas throughout Bedfordshire, including site visits, pre-application meetings, negotiation, and attendance at committee meetings and appeals where necessary. The number of cases being processed varied to some extent, but was never less than 200 per year. These involved buildings of all types and ages, including large numbers of vernacular timber framed houses dating before c.1750, Georgian and Victorian town houses, schools, country houses, barns and other agricultural structures, shops, churches, chapels, and a range of street furniture including railings, boundary walls, gates, piers, and other details. The varied geology of Bedfordshire resulted in exposure to a wide range of building materials including

7 oolitic limestone, greensand, chalk, clunch, and a variety of clays that created a range of different bricks Luton greys, Arlesey whites, soft reds, and others. There was considerable emphasis on giving advice on repairs to predominantly timber framed structures, including wattle and daub, lath and plaster, thatch, tile, cob, pisé, roughcast render, plain tile and pantile roofs, slate roofs, windows, and other architectural details. Cases also involved the impact of new development on registered parks and gardens and conservation areas, including the effect of new design, and issues to do with enabling development, enforcement, prosecution, listing and delisting, building preservation notices, setting, and the character and appearance of historic buildings and areas. Selected topics of interest are noted below. Medieval churches: Notable examples include scheduled monument consent applications for the repair of the ruined church at Clophill, extensions to the churches at Kensworth and Chalton, and repairs to the church at Leighton Linslade. Buildings at Risk: Monitored, updated and published Buildings at Risk registers in South Bedfordshire. Shefford Town Scheme: Responsible for the administration of the Shefford Town Scheme, which provided funding for the repair of historic buildings within the Shefford Conservation Area. Appeals: Large numbers of hearings and appeals by way of written representations, including expert evidence at public inquiries in relation to applications affecting listed buildings at Kensworth Lynch and Shortgove Manor Farm, Kensworth. Ampthill, Woburn and Woburn Abbey: Responsibility for development management in Bedfordshire s two most important concentrations of Georgian and Victorian buildings, including dealing with the effects of Woburn Safari Park ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF ENGLAND Cartographic Draughtsman and Curatorial Officer Dartmoor Project : Responsible for an archaeological mapping project funded by English Heritage in which the entire National Park was surveyed from aerial photographs, including updating the Devon Sites and Monuments Record in Exeter. Surveyed at 1:10,560 scale, the result was the first comprehensive archaeological record of all features from the late Neolithic to post-medieval periods on Dartmoor. Mapping included long barrows, round barrows and cairns, coaxial field systems mainly of Bronze Age date ( parallel reave systems ), prehistoric and later enclosures, hut circles and medieval industrial remains of tin streaming, leats, blowing-houses, and peat-cutting. Recommendations for scheduling were made to English Heritage as a pilot study within the earlier stages of the Monuments Protection Programme. Kent Project : Responsible for an archaeological mapping project funded by English Heritage in which the entire historic environment of Kent was surveyed from aerial photographs, including updating the National Monuments Record and creating the basis of what was at that time the first comprehensive Sites and Monuments Record for Kent. Surveyed at 1:10,000 scale, the areas most responsive to aerial survey and mapping were the chalk downs of East Kent, which revealed extensive Iron Age, Roman and later structures as cropmarks and soilmarks. Classification of cropmarks and soilmarks : Responsible for creating a classification system for cropmarks and soilmarks, funded by English Heritage as part of the Monuments Protection Programme. The purpose of the classification was to create the first computer-aided

8 system for dealing with the large numbers of undated and complex archaeological sites that were being recorded in the National Mapping Programme. Pilot studies began in Hertfordshire and on the Thames Gravels in 1989, and were later extended to many other parts of the country. The classification was developed into RCHME s computerised MORPH system for the National Mapping Programme SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION Archaeologist COMMITTEE Calvert s Buildings, Borough High Street: Excavation of a multi-period site, predominantly of Roman and medieval date, including a variety of structures and remains. Guy s Hospital Redevelopment, Tooley Street: Excavation of substantial Roman, medieval and post-medieval features, including wells, cellars, pits and part of a 16 th century vault associated with the adjacent churchyard that was also cleared as part of the redevelopment.