18th April 2011, 10:27 AM
environmental groups with volunteers do tender aginst each other for work. some of the largest contractors are in fact owned by charitee organisations !
some units already use a large volunteer base - in my view unfairly - but without sanction, so this is nothing new, but the point here is to allow local people access to their local archaeology not force units to carry an amateur digging team
some ordinary house owners who live on archaeological sites and want to build a conservatory or granny flat are curently prevented from doing so because the archaeologcial costs are prohibitive - often as much as 50% of their development costs. this is unreasonable and dosent win us any fans or show the industry in a good light
some units already use a large volunteer base - in my view unfairly - but without sanction, so this is nothing new, but the point here is to allow local people access to their local archaeology not force units to carry an amateur digging team
some ordinary house owners who live on archaeological sites and want to build a conservatory or granny flat are curently prevented from doing so because the archaeologcial costs are prohibitive - often as much as 50% of their development costs. this is unreasonable and dosent win us any fans or show the industry in a good light