22nd July 2010, 06:10 PM
But steve who in this public care are you protecting.
Developer sends planning application in and it has an accompanying desk based explaining that there is reason to believe that nothing significant is there, or an evaluation report with further proposed mitigation. You can say it was not necessary or its not good enough. Whats all this public duty bringing archaeology into disrepute justify my existence. You would still be there in the process and probably in a much more un-biased way. Currently as soon as you accept a scheme of works you have in effect approved the cowboy to do the job what ever happens next. Where as if a report turned up you can turn round without having had any prior involvement and say its crap in the full knowledge that its not your fault this time.
Developer sends planning application in and it has an accompanying desk based explaining that there is reason to believe that nothing significant is there, or an evaluation report with further proposed mitigation. You can say it was not necessary or its not good enough. Whats all this public duty bringing archaeology into disrepute justify my existence. You would still be there in the process and probably in a much more un-biased way. Currently as soon as you accept a scheme of works you have in effect approved the cowboy to do the job what ever happens next. Where as if a report turned up you can turn round without having had any prior involvement and say its crap in the full knowledge that its not your fault this time.