19th December 2011, 05:47 PM
There's some more news on this. Sandwell MBC have made a statement on the provision of their heritage service (on TwitLonger of all places!):
Read the full statement here.
It appears the conservation officer will now undertake the duties previously performed by the Borough Archaeologist and HER officer, with some services being outsourced.
Of course you wouldn't know any of this if you looked at the official Sandwell MBC archaeology web page:
Quote:"There have been two redundancies because of the move away from an in-house archaeological service, alongside others across planning."
Read the full statement here.
It appears the conservation officer will now undertake the duties previously performed by the Borough Archaeologist and HER officer, with some services being outsourced.
Of course you wouldn't know any of this if you looked at the official Sandwell MBC archaeology web page:
Quote:The archaeological team at Sandwell comprises of the Borough Archaeologist, Planning Archaeologist and Historic Environment Records Officer...