10th September 2009, 07:49 PM
The new PPS couches Significance in terms of value to the wider public and stresses the importance of consultation with communities and is explicit about the importance of publishing results and of public participation / access to fieldwork. This takes us away from the unhelpful and over 'engineered' contamination / mitigation approach of PPG16 and consequently may do much for the improved public perception of archaeologists and archaeology.
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