2022:083 - LISNAGARVEY, 13 Castle Street Lisburn, Antrim

The development of land to the rear of No 13 Castle Street, Lisburn, consisted of the construction of a of a 2-storey mews dwelling and associated amenity space linking into existing services and utilizing existing access.

The grant of planning permission conditioned a phase of licensed archaeological monitoring of the ground works associated with construction.

The site was located in proximity to a Listed Building, however Historic Environment Division—Historic Buildings (HED:HB) were content the proposal would have no adverse impact on the setting of the Listed Building given the separation distance involved.

Historic Environment Division—Historic Monuments considered the impacts of the proposal and was content, subject to conditions for the agreement and implementation of archaeological mitigation. Although this proposal included a relatively small area of ground disturbance, they were concerned that archaeological remains might be uncovered during site works.

They recommended a phase of archaeological monitoring as a condition to any approval granted to the application.

Archaeological monitoring of ground works took place over two weekends, 29th January and 5th February 2022. While the investigations uncovered evidence for a two-phased building, it was considered probable that this did not pre-date the 19th century.

In addition, no evidence was uncovered for any archaeology pre-dating the buildings.