22nd September 2011, 04:23 PM
RESCUE has learned that Sandwell Municipal Borough Council is planning to axe the posts of Borough Archaeologist and the HER Officer. This will leave the Borough without any provision for archaeological monitoring of planning applications and no Sites and Monuments Record. Archaeology is, it seems, considered a ‘luxury’.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cach...grYwkBjQ5w
Please take time to e-mail the Council members responsible with your arguments for the retention of the two posts and if you have friends, colleagues or family in the West Midlands please encourage them to do the same. RESCUE’s letter will be published on their website in due course.
The document (link above) states
5. WHAT ACTIONS CAN BE TAKEN TO MITIGATE ANY ADVERSE IMPACTS?
There are no adverse impacts identified on service delivery.
The impact on the individual will sought to be mitigated by the actions identified below. (ie offering them vacant posts within the council - as if there will be ones for out of work archaeologists!)
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cach...grYwkBjQ5w
Please take time to e-mail the Council members responsible with your arguments for the retention of the two posts and if you have friends, colleagues or family in the West Midlands please encourage them to do the same. RESCUE’s letter will be published on their website in due course.
The document (link above) states
5. WHAT ACTIONS CAN BE TAKEN TO MITIGATE ANY ADVERSE IMPACTS?
There are no adverse impacts identified on service delivery.
The impact on the individual will sought to be mitigated by the actions identified below. (ie offering them vacant posts within the council - as if there will be ones for out of work archaeologists!)