2nd December 2008, 03:45 PM
I think you're right gonetopot. It would be nice to be refreshed a bit. However, modern doesn't always mean better (although the Government appear to think it does). Perhaps it's a case of "Better the Devil You Know". It would be difficult, if not impossible, to implement this Bill with the funding provisions the Government has set out, so maybe we should be happy to stay with the situation we've got until they can come back with a better thought-out and properly resourced piece of legislation. A big loss if this does go down would be the statutory requirement for Historic Environment Records though, so we'll have to keep lobbying for those.
What is a shame, is the amount of professional time this has wasted. There are plenty of people who've been thoroughly occupuied for a good few years now in working towards getting this implemented. Their time would've been much better spent looking after the heritage itself! No doubt UNESCO will have some pithy comments to make too - I wonder if anyone will be able to persuade them not to remove Stonehenge from the list of World Heritage Sites now? :face-huh:
What is a shame, is the amount of professional time this has wasted. There are plenty of people who've been thoroughly occupuied for a good few years now in working towards getting this implemented. Their time would've been much better spent looking after the heritage itself! No doubt UNESCO will have some pithy comments to make too - I wonder if anyone will be able to persuade them not to remove Stonehenge from the list of World Heritage Sites now? :face-huh: