21st June 2010, 06:06 PM
Sorry for being boring but there are some serious points to be chewed over here. Do we want some form of 'heritage management' or not is the first question. Some would say just pull down the fences and let people trample all over the site and if they destroy what they came to see that is what freedom of choice means (the libertarian option). Or do we trust the designated 'guardians' - EH, NT, DCMS? Or do we have unofficial/official bodies powerful enough to lobby/protest for a solution to this mess? If we opt for heritage management of the site what needs to be done that all 'stakeholders' can sign up to? It's been 10 years since the first MA course in Heritage Management ran at UCL looking at how sites can be conserved and open to the public; where are the professional managers that supposed to have been coming out of this process?
