23rd January 2006, 12:21 PM
As a curator i would hope that anyone working on a site who saw a breach of the project design, or work not being carried out, would call me so i could visit the site and see exactly what was going on.
With the support of a good planner it is possible to bring a development to a stop which will cost the developer money until the archaeology has been adequately completed. I always suggest to developers that they should not pay the final bill until the archaeological condition is discharged. This also helps to maintain standards in quite an effective way.
At the moment an enforcement officer is forcing a developer to dismantle a listed barn conversion which was undertaken in breach of a recording condition to enable the building to be recorded and the condition fulfilled. Admittedly this is not underground archaeology but if you inform the curator there are things we can do.
And this works even if people or organisations are not in the IFA.
With the support of a good planner it is possible to bring a development to a stop which will cost the developer money until the archaeology has been adequately completed. I always suggest to developers that they should not pay the final bill until the archaeological condition is discharged. This also helps to maintain standards in quite an effective way.
At the moment an enforcement officer is forcing a developer to dismantle a listed barn conversion which was undertaken in breach of a recording condition to enable the building to be recorded and the condition fulfilled. Admittedly this is not underground archaeology but if you inform the curator there are things we can do.
And this works even if people or organisations are not in the IFA.