Drayton Parish Council requires a targeted excavation of the footprint of a multi-use game area (MUGA) proposed to be constructed on land at Drayton near Abingdon.
All work will be undertaken in accordance with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Code of Conduct (CIfA 2014a) and relevant Standards and Guidance (CIfA 2014b), and local and national planning policies.
The site lies on the northern edge of Drayton, Oxfordshire (SU 47799 95151
The general aims of the strip, map and sample excavation (SMS) are to determine and understand the nature, function, and character of the archaeological remains within their cultural and environmental setting. This will be achieved through the excavation and recording an appropriate sample of the features identified.
The specific aims and objectives of the works are:
• To determine the presence or absence of any archaeological remains which may survive.
• To determine or confirm the approximate extent of any surviving remains.
• To determine the date range of any surviving remains by artefactual or other means.
• To determine the condition and state of preservation of any remains.
• To determine the degree of complexity of any surviving horizontal or vertical stratigraphy.
• To assess the associations and implications of any remains encountered with reference to the historic landscape.
• To determine the potential of the site to provide palaeoenvironmental and/or economic evidence, and the forms in which such evidence may survive.
• To determine the implications of any remains with reference to economy, status utility and social activity.
• To ensure there is no detrimental impact on archaeological remains that are to be preserved in situ
Drayton Parish Council requires a Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) to be provided as part of the additional sports facilities under the Drayton Neighbourhood Plan . Playing fields, a sports pavilion and car park are also being provided on the same site, but the MUGA will be the first of these facilities.
Our sports needs survey concluded: "There is a clear need for a MUGA on the pavilion site to enable people to play tennis, football, basketball and all forms of ball play. Netball is currently played at the village school, but the netball club may wish to relocate to the new site. The surface of the MUGA must meet these needs as a minimum and have a free draining all weather surface. The MUGA should be floodlit to enable maximum usage during the winter months".
We require two 18m x 36m MUGAs
Drayton Parish Council are implementing a new sports pitch and associated drainage system on a former agricultural site in Drayton, Oxfordshire.
The tender entails Installation of a new pipe drainage system with sand-slits and a sand rootzone carpet to two sports pitches with synthetic turf cricket pitch. Associated main drain and ditch grading works.
The works are to provide a good quality turf pitch playing surface to IoG (GMA) performance standards for the 'basic' level grading, suitable for playing soccer throughout the winter months and capable of maintenance by standard methods and equipment.
The pitches are to be seeded by the 27th September 2024, with sands-slitting and the cricket pitch installed in early 2025 as soon as ground conditions permit.