20th August 2011, 11:50 AM
Doug Wrote:Rome wasn't built in a day but it wasn't destroyed in a day either. Commercial archaeology took decades to make and will at least take years to destroyxx(, assuming we let it happen.
Eh? Commercial archaeology was created almost overnight by PPG16! Apart from a tiny amount of stuff (mainly in London) most sites prior to that had been central government funded, either directly from the MoW/DoE/SDD/EH etc, or latterly indirectly through the CP! That can all be taken away just as quickly by a change in government policy, eg if they decided that heritage should no longer be a material consideration in the planning system