6th November 2009, 12:30 PM
While I agree that the standards need to be more fully explained and quantified, I don't think that appropriate outreach needs to be expensive. The paragraph above mentions putting up an information board, and telling the local press.
Its only in the case of having to close the site to run tours, or adapting the H&S requirements to allow more people to access the site that things start to get expensive, and you need to start budgeting for it. Probably any archaeology which has gone through pre-application determenation, evaluation and onto excavation is going to be interesting to the public.
I'd much rather see this added onto the budget as an additional contingency cost, rather than coming from the contractor's margin.
Its only in the case of having to close the site to run tours, or adapting the H&S requirements to allow more people to access the site that things start to get expensive, and you need to start budgeting for it. Probably any archaeology which has gone through pre-application determenation, evaluation and onto excavation is going to be interesting to the public.
I'd much rather see this added onto the budget as an additional contingency cost, rather than coming from the contractor's margin.