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3. Survey ProgrammesLevel 1:Statutory ProtectionLevel 2:Rapid Systematic SurveyLevel 3:Detailed RecordingField ArchaeologyAssistance to DoE Inspectors onExamination of monuments to beconsidered for scheduling orextension of scheduled area; alsoassistance with casework.Potential use of Section 52agreements (TCPA 1971) forprotection of unscheduled fieldmonuments.Rapid parish survey programmes:commencing with existing state ofknowledge in Sites and MonumentsRecord, checking standard list ofdocumentary sources, checking infield, and finally, revising SMR.Some detailed earthwork recording.RescUe (and other less urgent)excavation would presumably alsofall into this categoryDetailed field surveys such as workby D.N. Hall and J. Hutchings coveringnorth-west Beds parishes with specificbut detailed survey objectives:see Beds Arch J (passim)Historic BuildingsAssistance to DoE Investigatorsin revision of statutory liststhrough execution of local surveysand making of recommendations.Recommendations for spot-listing.Service of Building PreservationNotices, or advice to DistrictPlanning Officers on same.Preliminary investigation of basiccharacteristics of vernacular andother buildings in conjunction withprogramme of survey for list revision.Accession of details to SMR.Voluntary detailed recording executedby local workers, mainly by J.M.Bailey,usually in advance of renovation ordemolition.This table analyses the survey programmes carried out, by or coordinated by, the Planning Department ConservationSection. The distinction between three levels of activity has emerged naturally in the process of developmentchiefly in response to the need for some system of priorities in the use of limited resources.Fig. 9 shows the progress of level 1/2 building and parish survey programmes in Bedfordshire to October 1977