26th September 2013, 10:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 26th September 2013, 10:56 AM by Unitof1.)
I don't hand over the reports redearth. Most of my incidents have been of watching brief type which never escalated into any other type of intervention and two small "excavations" within watching briefs and one building recording which grow out of a watching brief of a lifting of a cobble floor (that one was a messy two grand with lots of site visits and the owner got cancer there was a hurricane and the post medieval timber frame thingy fell down).
I would say half of them have never been sold on and the other half have involved people going bust, divorces, neighbours falling out and two have died and I don't feel like its a reason of doing archaeology to make these people pay with threatening legal action.
I also have a grey area where developers did material starts, I have charged for the day but not final report and I have not heard anything since.
anyway the "don't hand over the report" (which I don't) approach has a problem with me in that what I want is that the curators pay me for my report, actually I think that they should pay for all the reports. Its their standards, for their HER formed out of their interpretation of town and countries planning. I don't mind charging the developers of my time on site but to my mind its the "establishment" that wants the "report". So yes I want to get paid and I want the curators to pay for the report. if they want to pass the charge onto the developer then that's their problem and maybe they should do it through the planning application fees.
I would say half of them have never been sold on and the other half have involved people going bust, divorces, neighbours falling out and two have died and I don't feel like its a reason of doing archaeology to make these people pay with threatening legal action.
I also have a grey area where developers did material starts, I have charged for the day but not final report and I have not heard anything since.
anyway the "don't hand over the report" (which I don't) approach has a problem with me in that what I want is that the curators pay me for my report, actually I think that they should pay for all the reports. Its their standards, for their HER formed out of their interpretation of town and countries planning. I don't mind charging the developers of my time on site but to my mind its the "establishment" that wants the "report". So yes I want to get paid and I want the curators to pay for the report. if they want to pass the charge onto the developer then that's their problem and maybe they should do it through the planning application fees.
Reason: your past is my past