5th July 2010, 07:56 PM
I would have thought worrying about payscales is a bit academic given the impending public spending cuts. You're the ConDem govt and have pledged to cut 25-35% of public spending (and now considering 40%). Who's for the chop? Nurses? Soldiers? Police? Schools? Archaeologists? Bit of a no-brainer. And once we've lost the LA archs who's going to ensure PPS5 is implemented? However much 'better' it may be considered, I am aware that there are LPA's that don't bother to consult their own archs - conditions only get attached due to the diligence of those archs constantly reviewing their own council websites. Without the LA archs it's a pretty enormous chasm awaiting the rest of us in the private sector and, indeed, our heritage. I suppose the only bit of light is that there'll be such widespread unemployment that no-one will be building anything, be it houses, roads, schools for the future etc so nothing will be destroyed???