28th May 2012, 05:49 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:. Fines for failing to follow the law have exceeded 1,000,000 krone (?110,000) and have required the removal of the illegal development.
I'd suggest that an increase in the maximum fine for not dealing with archaeology would do a lot to make developers take it a bit more seriously. If the cost of dealing with archaeology on your development is ?20,000, and the maximum fine for not complying with the planning condition that requires you to deal with archaeology is ?1,000, there will be a lot of developers who'd happily take the fine and save the money (and that's on the basis that they're actually caught in the first place).
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum