2nd February 2006, 06:41 PM
Hi Sparky
I thought you were talking about the developer too, and how the planning authority would deal with a 'cowboy builder' submitting an application for development.
But if you were on about archaeological contractors, this has been much discussed before - opening yourself up for legal nightmare on restriction of trade grounds no matter who it is. Unless you have an approved list of contractors you will not restrict who works in a county.
But what you CAN do (and I know some of the other curators on here do this too) is monitor them to death - including post-excavation and archiving if you wish, and try to educate them. You also have to distinguish between incompentence, or malicious intent, rather than just being not quite up to the job, which is a very different thing, and there you can have more leeway (suggesting unit A contacts unit B for assistance on a particular scheme or whatever). In my experience most people are pretty okay with that.
But this is digressing from archiving....happy to continue under another thread.
ML
I thought you were talking about the developer too, and how the planning authority would deal with a 'cowboy builder' submitting an application for development.
But if you were on about archaeological contractors, this has been much discussed before - opening yourself up for legal nightmare on restriction of trade grounds no matter who it is. Unless you have an approved list of contractors you will not restrict who works in a county.
But what you CAN do (and I know some of the other curators on here do this too) is monitor them to death - including post-excavation and archiving if you wish, and try to educate them. You also have to distinguish between incompentence, or malicious intent, rather than just being not quite up to the job, which is a very different thing, and there you can have more leeway (suggesting unit A contacts unit B for assistance on a particular scheme or whatever). In my experience most people are pretty okay with that.
But this is digressing from archiving....happy to continue under another thread.
ML