1st June 2005, 08:28 AM
Quick and dirty answer.... which I am sure is repeated in many council archaeologist offices around the country.
We are now inundated with work... planning control, checking reports, advice within the council and for the public or developers. community projects, Rural Stewardship schemes (or CSS in england) HER enquiries, updating the HER, site visits.
Many of us are teams of one! some have two... but we are very very overworked... and think about this... we have to know wether the Building recording report is good, tehn a geophsics report... then an evaluation with a prehistoic pottery section...etc.... we are expected to be able to value judge everything... impossible!
We have to trust the contractors to carry out work... but if they do not communicate with us... !
Site visits and talking to diggers (which I do.. when I get to go out - not often) is often with people who have no ieda why they are there, what they are looking for and can't really be ####.... its justa job. I think it would be good to talk more and a change is required to create that climate.
As to relationship with planners! sigh........ "But why?" is one call.... another is often "Oh.... we did not think that conditions should be put on that"
We are now inundated with work... planning control, checking reports, advice within the council and for the public or developers. community projects, Rural Stewardship schemes (or CSS in england) HER enquiries, updating the HER, site visits.
Many of us are teams of one! some have two... but we are very very overworked... and think about this... we have to know wether the Building recording report is good, tehn a geophsics report... then an evaluation with a prehistoic pottery section...etc.... we are expected to be able to value judge everything... impossible!
We have to trust the contractors to carry out work... but if they do not communicate with us... !
Site visits and talking to diggers (which I do.. when I get to go out - not often) is often with people who have no ieda why they are there, what they are looking for and can't really be ####.... its justa job. I think it would be good to talk more and a change is required to create that climate.
As to relationship with planners! sigh........ "But why?" is one call.... another is often "Oh.... we did not think that conditions should be put on that"