preservation or thrown to the wolves?

[1man1desk]

quoteon't let em build where there is archaeology, thats the only real answer!

Achingknees is dead right. Virtually the whole of the UK landscape and 100% of its townscapes is man-made, or at least altered, so it is all archaeology in one way or another.

So, you either stop all building of anything in the UK, or you have a system to decide the following:

• when the archaeology is so important that no building is allowed;
• when it can be allowed, subject to mitigation (and what mitigation);
• when the impact is so insignificant that it does not matter.

We do have such a system, albeit an imperfect one. However, no matter how good the system, you are never going to get universal agreement about where the cut-off points should be.



1man1desk

to let, fully furnished