2nd December 2011, 02:39 PM
Agee with the general consensus. If you're going to have a heritage police, it should be part of the curatorial/local government services. Getting a contribution to it from all those planning applications fees might be a way to start.
If we can beef up the curators to a point where they could properly monitor/enforce all works and stipulate their own set of national standards we could scrap the IFA.....
and I like Redearths peer review idea - can I extend it to WSI's? that way i can see in advance which buggers are undercutting by leaving out stuff or being deleiberately vague, and hoping the hardpressed curator with 4 to read before lunch won't notice.
If we can beef up the curators to a point where they could properly monitor/enforce all works and stipulate their own set of national standards we could scrap the IFA.....
and I like Redearths peer review idea - can I extend it to WSI's? that way i can see in advance which buggers are undercutting by leaving out stuff or being deleiberately vague, and hoping the hardpressed curator with 4 to read before lunch won't notice.