21st July 2010, 10:40 AM
no, nay, never (top tip make a big song and dance about getting off that list)
I think the real question is what is the authority of the pre-determination brief-(if it there is a brief). Is it something that should go through the case officer?
It was imagined in ppg16 that the brief elicited tenders for the developer. In my experience the developers in the predetermination stage don’t like to broadcast anything about their development let alone announcing to the world that the authorities think that they are riddled with archaeology. It should be noted that authorities now charge for pre-application “advice”.
The developers mostly approach one evaluator and really only want to show it to get a ball park figure and an explanation of what it all means. In a lot of areas it will be an established archaeological set up. Although I have no direct survey I imagine that in about 8+cases out of 10 that the developer goes with the first evaluator that they approach. Its quite critical if you want evaluation work to get in first, it’s the how that is the problem.
But to bring it back to the thread what makes a good urban eval presumably a curator would say a good urban brief but you are not going to get that unless it is subject to competition.-we then have the problem of the curator who then becomes the judge of their own brief complicated by the fact that its possibly confidential and has been re-interpreted by a scheme which is also possibly confidential, if it exists.
I think the real question is what is the authority of the pre-determination brief-(if it there is a brief). Is it something that should go through the case officer?
It was imagined in ppg16 that the brief elicited tenders for the developer. In my experience the developers in the predetermination stage don’t like to broadcast anything about their development let alone announcing to the world that the authorities think that they are riddled with archaeology. It should be noted that authorities now charge for pre-application “advice”.
The developers mostly approach one evaluator and really only want to show it to get a ball park figure and an explanation of what it all means. In a lot of areas it will be an established archaeological set up. Although I have no direct survey I imagine that in about 8+cases out of 10 that the developer goes with the first evaluator that they approach. Its quite critical if you want evaluation work to get in first, it’s the how that is the problem.
But to bring it back to the thread what makes a good urban eval presumably a curator would say a good urban brief but you are not going to get that unless it is subject to competition.-we then have the problem of the curator who then becomes the judge of their own brief complicated by the fact that its possibly confidential and has been re-interpreted by a scheme which is also possibly confidential, if it exists.