29th March 2012, 10:56 AM
Serpentine I totally agree that there may be long and complex discussions or trade offs involved in decision making regards heritage issues and planning. I was thinking more along the lines where currently an HER is not accessible or where there is no planning archaeologist in place and when it could be easily shown that that the planning process had not considered heritage as a material issue. The CBA intend to write to local authorities who have suspended or closed their HER (Merseyside and Tees are quoted as examples), but I was thinking that maybe more positive action might be required to bring their planning procedures into line with the new advice......i.e objections to granted permissions!
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