20th February 2009, 07:17 PM
If we had legislative backing now, we would be canned so fast, the industry would cease to exist.
There are too many hardliners for heritage and too many who don't give a damb.
We have professionalism, but if the industry continues to shrink, we would increasingly fall to either side and that would be impossible to work through a legal system, with enough interested parties having spare time to campaign.
Infastructure may start, but one swallow, does not make a spring.
For now what is important is keeping as much of the industries viable institutional real-estate alive and commercially kicking.
If we don't, we are going to have to start from scratch, from the embers of all!
That, I'm afraid, may be all the time needed, to get rid archaeology, off the planning books.
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Mike