15th December 2004, 03:35 PM
I am afraid that this already happens, with archaeology enshrined in the planning process (see NPPG16) Of course we can only protect the sites we know about or can assume may be in that area based upon other evidence. We have to act within the law though... so asking for 5% evaluations in a field that has been a field since 1620 is not going to be approved unless we can provide real evidence why it should be... the process is getting better as detectoriss come forward and tell us (in teh council) about these unknown sites.
We do also have provision for 'unexpected archaeology' but we all know of developers that find and hide sites - but we can't act if we ain't told... so if you se a site being destroyed... tell some one... best is the County Archaeologist (a full list is available on BAJR Who's Who...
Thanks for that PetetheDig... nice to see you here..
We do also have provision for 'unexpected archaeology' but we all know of developers that find and hide sites - but we can't act if we ain't told... so if you se a site being destroyed... tell some one... best is the County Archaeologist (a full list is available on BAJR Who's Who...
Thanks for that PetetheDig... nice to see you here..