10th April 2006, 10:50 AM
Permissions for scheduled monuments are taken by the DCMS on the advice of English Heritage - whose advice they can accept or ignore - this is not Scotland or Wales remember. The local curator will have no input into the matter. Frequently we are presented with a scheme, however bizarre, curious or twisted, and left to come up with a specification to try and answer it in some way.
The heritage protection review will now leave scheduled monuments to be dealt with by local authorities presumably with a similar frame of reference to the DCMS on the advice of EH as there is presently with listed building applications.
Hands up who feels this offers any improvement.
The heritage protection review will now leave scheduled monuments to be dealt with by local authorities presumably with a similar frame of reference to the DCMS on the advice of EH as there is presently with listed building applications.
Hands up who feels this offers any improvement.