Employment Sites Assessment.pdf

Rapid Heritage Assessment of 10 employment sites in Burnley:

EMP1/1: Rossendale Road North - unlikely to retain important buried remains, considered of unknown but probably local to negligible archaeological significance.
EMP1/2: Burnley Bridge Business Park - not considered to retain important buried remains, considered of negligible archaeological significance.
EMP1/3: Vision Park - remains of mill power systems and tramway viaduct considered of local archaeological significance, desk-based assessment and walk-over survey recommended.
EMP1/4: Widow Hill Road - buried remains of farmstead likely to exist, considered of local significance, desk-based assessment and trial trenching recommended.
EMP1/5: Land south of Network 65 - unknown archaeological significance, remains of medieval deer park pale could be of local to regional importance, desk-based assessment and walk-over recommended.
EMP1/6: Balderstone Lane - negligible archaeological significance, no investigation or recording recommended.
EMP1/7: Westgate - negligible archaeological significance, no investigation or recording recommended.
EMP1/8: Thompson Centre Car Park - remains of iron foundry could survive, considered of local archaeological significance, desk-based assessment and trial trenching recommended.
EMP1/9: Innovation Drive - negligible archaeological significance, no investigation or recording recommended.
EMP1/10: Widow Hill Road South - negligible archaeological significance, no investigation or recording recommended.