22nd February 2009, 02:08 PM
A full and brilliant account Paul... we are in your debt..
To fill in the last points...
- an urgent need to work on curatorial standards and guidance
- discharge of planning conditions, especially post-excavation
- improvements to government planning guidance, to make the process work better
- the recession was an opportunity for change which should be embraced
- the public benefit of archaeology needed to be explained (by the profession) to the wider world
It was clear that further meetings like this would be of benefit to the profession, and it was hoped that a follow-up meeting could be arranged in due course.
These are things we SHOULD have dealt with years ago... but did not, or did not act collectively... perhaps it is time to reshape the way we collectively act and are represented... every group acting on behalf of its members... and exchanging openly information so that a united and focused voice is presented. Rather than all of us pitching in... This would mean that private chats and deals would not be acceptable... that the decisions of the many must overrule the thoughts of the few.
Noel made some of the best points... Dave Allen... PROSPECT... the union that has done so much to protect archaeological workers of the years..!
?When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.?
William Blake
To fill in the last points...
- an urgent need to work on curatorial standards and guidance
- discharge of planning conditions, especially post-excavation
- improvements to government planning guidance, to make the process work better
- the recession was an opportunity for change which should be embraced
- the public benefit of archaeology needed to be explained (by the profession) to the wider world
It was clear that further meetings like this would be of benefit to the profession, and it was hoped that a follow-up meeting could be arranged in due course.
These are things we SHOULD have dealt with years ago... but did not, or did not act collectively... perhaps it is time to reshape the way we collectively act and are represented... every group acting on behalf of its members... and exchanging openly information so that a united and focused voice is presented. Rather than all of us pitching in... This would mean that private chats and deals would not be acceptable... that the decisions of the many must overrule the thoughts of the few.
Noel made some of the best points... Dave Allen... PROSPECT... the union that has done so much to protect archaeological workers of the years..!
?When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.?
William Blake