6th November 2015, 11:02 AM
So in your ideal world, planners just let you get on with it and don't trouble their pretty little heads about archaeology?
I am not keen on two tier government systems. This thread was started on the two tier seems to have come apart in West Sussex. I am in agreement that the public and other archaeologists can monitor the archaeology through the planning system. I am in favour of what I interpret para 128 to say which is that every planning application should be accompanied by an assessment of heritage asserts which at a minimum might be evidence that the applicant has consulted an HER. I think the point of it is to present heritage in the planning application and encourage the public and the LPA to take the assessment into consideration for the decision. But that's not what I see happening with almost every application round my way. So the public and I don't get to participate in any monitoring in the planning process.
What seems to go on is that the planners in the higher tier employed by a politic not directly responsible for local planning authority appear to be wholly underfunded understaffed and to run this system have interpreted 128 as triage, and basically run the system like ppg16 and so commercial archaeologists are still being approached by developers after the developer has the permission and conditions which are evaluations or recording. The two teir system leaves almost no expertise in the local planning authority made worse because the HER and museums are non local either. What showed up in west sussex is the lack of who pays for what in all the legislations and policies. West Sussex appear to have claimed that what they supplied was non statutory and there does not appear to have been a counter claim. I presume that they have been left with the HER because of Statutory Instrument 1995 No.418 which has the words county council but even that is really a tenuous claim for a HER.
I am not keen on two tier government systems. This thread was started on the two tier seems to have come apart in West Sussex. I am in agreement that the public and other archaeologists can monitor the archaeology through the planning system. I am in favour of what I interpret para 128 to say which is that every planning application should be accompanied by an assessment of heritage asserts which at a minimum might be evidence that the applicant has consulted an HER. I think the point of it is to present heritage in the planning application and encourage the public and the LPA to take the assessment into consideration for the decision. But that's not what I see happening with almost every application round my way. So the public and I don't get to participate in any monitoring in the planning process.
What seems to go on is that the planners in the higher tier employed by a politic not directly responsible for local planning authority appear to be wholly underfunded understaffed and to run this system have interpreted 128 as triage, and basically run the system like ppg16 and so commercial archaeologists are still being approached by developers after the developer has the permission and conditions which are evaluations or recording. The two teir system leaves almost no expertise in the local planning authority made worse because the HER and museums are non local either. What showed up in west sussex is the lack of who pays for what in all the legislations and policies. West Sussex appear to have claimed that what they supplied was non statutory and there does not appear to have been a counter claim. I presume that they have been left with the HER because of Statutory Instrument 1995 No.418 which has the words county council but even that is really a tenuous claim for a HER.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist