Apart from Hereford Council (who knew damn well what they were doing as the County Archaeologist publicly likened it to Stonehenge in importance) these decisions by smaller councils come down to sheer lack of knowledge I suppose.
Deciding a nationally or internationally important monument should be dug into to provide a remembrance garden or for reasons of "tidyness" comed down to plain ignorance I suppose. But does it? In each case vast amounts of professional advice against their ambitions was given - and was simply ignored or went over their heads.
There was a plan a while back to put monetary values on heritage assets for accounting purposes. It never made much sense but maybe if councillors were made personally responsible for any diminution in the value of public assets that their decisions caused they'd have less of a tendency to ignore professional advice.
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16th January 2009ce
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