Extensive Urban Survey - Bedfordshire and Luton
Bedfordshire County Council, 2006. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000096. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000096
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Overview
The EUS had two phases: data compilation and assessment. Data compilation comprised the drawing together of archaeological, historical and historic built environment information. The assessments present the information acquired during data compilation in a report containing a history of the town, an account of the town's archaeology and identifying the main archaeological components of the town. Although the assessments used historic building data throughout, particularly in describing the town's development and identifying components, they do not provide a description or characterisation of the towns historic built environment.
The Bedfordshire and Luton EUS does not contain specific strategy sections or supplementary planning guidance. The strategic management of the urban archaeological resource is achieved by using the EUS to frame Local Development Framework policies and inform development control decisions. The research background is provided by the pubished local and regional Research Frameworks.
The chronological framework used in the Assessment reports to describe each town's development reflects the periodisation used in the Bedfordshire Historic Environment Record (HER). Any broad dating system of this kind has limitations in the face of the mass of detailed evidence that exists for each town. It has, therefore, occasionally (e.g. Bedford in the Saxon and Saxo-Norman periods, or Luton in the early industrial period) been necessary to use slightly different chronological divisions. In addition, the town of Sandy is exceptional in its own right because only the Roman town and not the modern settlement has been included in the Bedfordshire and Luton EUS.
