20th November 2010, 08:10 PM
vulpes Wrote:@Odinn, what I meant was that commercial units can expect to do much more outreach work as part of their (and developers) responsibilities under PPS5As long as it is clearly part of the brief and a requirement of the planning condition it should be done. Will curators get training in how to assess outreach work properly? Will there be public satisfaction surveys before the condition is signed off?
One thing I am uncertain about is the extent to which the reduction in numbers of local authority archaeologists is relevant in this. If outreach is a part of PPS5 then it should be written into the briefs and a requirement of the planning permission regardless of the number of local authority archaeologists that are in post. If it is not part of PPS5 then the curatorial archaeologists may be over-reaching their authority by demanding that outreach is done as part of commercial fieldwork. That is not to say that I do not agree with outreach. I give of my own time for outreach work for free, but if it becomes part of a commercial job then it should be paid for and the people doing it should get paid. Otherwise it is yet another way to exploit the staff that are already underpaid.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'