1st May 2010, 04:05 AM
I often work in a country (Norway) where archaeology is properly regulated by law and indeed developers might need to wait in queue for the archaeological resource to be assessed/mitigated....but the system works. Whats more development is often turned down if the archaeology or landscape is thought important enough to preserve. Developers fit around the restrictions or they develop sites where there are no archaeological implications.
I don't quite understand how anyone could argue that the UK system of always deferring to speculators is adequate or even desirable. Why don't we just say 'No' a little more often. I am sure the speculators would find something else to do with their borrowed cash....
As to the suggestion of wholesale nationalisation of the archaeological resource.....YES PLEASE!!
I don't quite understand how anyone could argue that the UK system of always deferring to speculators is adequate or even desirable. Why don't we just say 'No' a little more often. I am sure the speculators would find something else to do with their borrowed cash....
As to the suggestion of wholesale nationalisation of the archaeological resource.....YES PLEASE!!
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