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Protecting Wales’ Archaeology Through Planning

Heneb’s Archaeological Planning Service provides impartial, expert advice to ensure that the archaeological heritage of Wales is protected during development. From initial consultation to compliance monitoring, we work with planning authorities, developers, and consultants to balance progress with preservation.

Archaeological Planning Service

Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology Archaeological Planning Service is a separate and autonomous section of Heneb. We provide specialist impartial archaeological advice to the local planning authorities of Wales, as well as to national agencies, utilities companies, developers, consultants and others engaged in development in the public and private sectors.

Heneb’s Archaeological Planning Service is the curatorial service responsible for setting the scope of all archaeological work undertaken in a development context and for ensuring compliance with professional standards through the monitoring of archaeological projects through to publication.

Our Archaeological Planning Service is delivered through the four regions of Heneb:

  • Clwyd-Powys

    The Clwyd-Powys region works within Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham, Powys and part of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority.
  • Dyfed

    The Dyfed region works within Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority and part of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority.
  • Glamorgan Gwent

    The Glamorgan-Gwent region works within Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Torfaen, Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan and part of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority.
  • Gwynedd

    And the Gwynedd region works within Ynys Môn, Conwy, Gwynedd and Eryri National Park Authority.

If you are in the process of submitting a planning application, Heneb suggest the following:

  • Get early advice

    We are happy to provide advice on your planning application.
  • Initial advice is provided free

    Initial advice is provided free, but it is up to the planning applicant, to obtain and pay for archaeological information to support the application or to comply with a planning condition.
  • Archaeological remains are fragile

    Archaeological remains are fragile and once destroyed cannot be replaced. The planning system is designed to protect these remains. If they cannot be protected then good planning will ensure a record of them is made before they are damaged or destroyed.
  • Amazing Discoveries

    Some of the most amazing archaeological discoveries over the past decades have been due to archaeological conditions placed on planning consents.