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Site Proposals document
Representation ID: 14686
Received: 20/03/2018
Respondent: Norfolk Geodiversity Partnership
We wish conditionally to support this site proposal. We note that the area of GNLP 0552 includes the Barford Borehole Site listed in the Norfolk Geodiversity Audit as Site SNF07. It is the location of a British Geological Survey (BGS) borehole proving the presence of a buried channel in Chalk bedrock containing lake deposits of Hoxnian interglacial age. Such Hoxnian deposits are rare and need further palaeo-environmental research. If development is approved at 0552 we request it is conditional upon samples and results of site investigation boreholes being sent to the BGS archive.
We wish conditionally to support this site proposal with the following proviso.
We note that the area of GNLP 0552 includes the Barford Borehole Site of geological interest, listed in the Norfolk Geodiversity Audit as Site SNF07. It is the location of a British Geological Survey borehole proving the presence of a deep buried channel (up to -34.7 m OD) cut into Chalk bedrock containing Pleistocene glacial deposits overlain by lake deposits of Hoxnian interglacial age (the Barford Formation). The Hoxnian deposits are rare and are the subject of ongoing palaeo-environmental research. If development took place at GNLP 0552 we request it be made conditional upon samples and results of site investigation boreholes being sent to the British Geological Survey archive.