16th July 2014, 01:36 PM
Quote:Landowners don't have any choice though do they ? Either pay for any potential Archaeology or don't do any development.
No they have no choice which is great for us and we charge them for "doing" the archaeology. In this model http://planreg.towerhamlets.gov.uk/W...df&pageCount=1 society not only pays for the archaeology to be done but also pays the archaeologist that created the archaeology to make it available for society. That's part of the conditions of the job for which the archaeologist was paid. That was the public service economic model which society tried to make more efficient by commercialising archaeology in the planning regulations. Its that last bit about paying the archaeologist for their product when it was archived that society conveniently left out of the equation.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist