4th September 2006, 03:40 PM
>has anyone any knowledge of action taken after such an event, or do any curators on the forum have standard responses?
I believe curators can set planning enforcement onto developers for breaches of condition. Iâve heard tales of a curators who, with the support of their Local Planning Authority, have been able to get developers to excavate an area equal in size to the one they have built on/trashed. This is achieved by refusing to sign the site off (i.e. advising the LPA not to discharge the archaeological condition) until the work has been done.
Un-discharged planning conditions cause problems for developers, especially if they want to sell the site. The only problem is that curators need eyes in the back of their heads to keep track of whoâs built what, where and when so that they can report people to enforcement for not doing what they were supposed to. You also need to have an archaeology-sympathetic planning department or enforcement officer for this sort of approach to work otherwise it's an uphill struggle.
I believe curators can set planning enforcement onto developers for breaches of condition. Iâve heard tales of a curators who, with the support of their Local Planning Authority, have been able to get developers to excavate an area equal in size to the one they have built on/trashed. This is achieved by refusing to sign the site off (i.e. advising the LPA not to discharge the archaeological condition) until the work has been done.
Un-discharged planning conditions cause problems for developers, especially if they want to sell the site. The only problem is that curators need eyes in the back of their heads to keep track of whoâs built what, where and when so that they can report people to enforcement for not doing what they were supposed to. You also need to have an archaeology-sympathetic planning department or enforcement officer for this sort of approach to work otherwise it's an uphill struggle.