11th June 2009, 01:09 PM
Be handy to get someone who actually understands buildings archaeology into a conservation officer post - from experience, a lot of Conservation officers don't have a clue aout the archaeology and don't actually see it as part of their remit - so they can OK LBC applications that will hve a huge imct onthe archaeology of a building without any attempt at recording or analysis - I have had more than one arument with Conservation Officers about this and in one case been undermined by a oservation Officer who,after I had outlined the details of level 3 recording to the owner of a building, chipped in with "Well a few photos will be OK!!"