This heritage impact assessment was undertaken in accordance with best practice. The assessment follows the guidance outlined in: Conservation Principles: policies and guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment (English Heritage 2008), The Setting of Heritage Assets (Historic England 2015), Seeing History in the View (English Heritage 2011), Managing Change in the Historic Environment: Setting (Historic Scotland 2010), and with reference to Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment 3rd Edition (Landscape Institute 2013). The impact assessment also follows the guidance outlined in the Principles of Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment in the UK produced by CIfA, IHBC and IEMA in July 2021. The proposed development would see the construction of a residential care home on the footprint of Roborough House and extending into the first garden compartment. The current proposals would see the re-siting or reuse of the entrance into the woodland garden designed landscape to facilitate access. An assessment of impact on heritage assets in the vicinity of the site has been carried out. Whilst the development would have a limited impact on many of the heritage assets in the landscape surrounding it, the current proposals would constitute a relatively major impact on the heritage assets in closest proximity to the site. The archaeological potential of the site is considered high. The indirect impact of the current proposals is considered moderate adverse however recommendations and mitigation measures have been proposed which, if fully implemented, could see the development assessed as major beneficial.
Balmond et al. (Wed,) studied this question.