23rd November 2005, 10:28 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by historic building
The other point which is proposed as part of the heritage protection review is for planning applications relating to scheduled monuments to be handled by planning authorities, rather than by EH. As part of having a single list of designated assets it is necessary to deal with them in the same way.
As someone who works with listed buildings and has seen the attitudes of planners to these I find it deeply worrying.
Knowing what planning authorities can do when left to their own devices, I too find this very worrying.
Maybe Councillors should take a course in the importance of archaeology and heritage before they can be elected
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