1st September 2009, 11:33 AM
david Wrote:Policy HE6: Monitoring indicators
25. Ensuring effective delivery is fundamental to the process of producing plans. Authorities will find that plans with clear historic environment objectives, targets and performance indicators will deliver more effective outcomes. Local authorities might usefully seek ways of measuring how changes, positive and negative, to the historic environment compare to economic and social changes, particularly in those settlements and/or areas undergoing change either through regeneration or growth.
Here is an example of trying to quantify the unquantifiable... do performance indicators work on a relative resource.. is recovery or 8 sherds of pottery more or less important than 16 coins? is a bronze age round house worth 2 iron age round houses? having a clear historic environment objectives, targets and performance indicators would be lovely IF people actually had that. I have yet to see a coherent and nationally accepted set of criteria for this. correct me if i am wrong.
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Thomas Rainborough 1647
Thomas Rainborough 1647