29th August 2012, 05:51 PM
a planning authority pays a curator it has appointed or engaged by due process to advise on its behalf and will normally back that curator through the planning process because it trusts that curator works for the best interest of the authority. if a developer employs a charlatan archaeologist to provide that authority with information or advice and that authority has to rely on other charlatan archaeologists to call into question that information or advice it would still have to pay a recognised archaeologist to determine if that information or advice was in the best interests of that authority. much easier to have a pet curator and avoid expensive law suits
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers