20th February 2007, 12:38 PM
Quote:quote:In Sweden the responsibility for monitoring and protecting archaeological remains, historic buildings, protected landscapes and even historic placenames scheduled under national legislation, is delegated to the locality (equivalant to the county level in UK terms). One could argue the pros and cons of the adoption of such a system across the whole of the UK.
This is potentially one of the proposals in the much delayed heritage white paper - so we may get a chance to find out how this devolution of responsibility works. For one thing it will need to be accompanied by considerable capacity building at the local authority level if it is to work.