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Littlestone Jun 8, 2007 13:04:55
Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

They insist on doing everything in-house then get the story horribly wrong and leave lots of important details out.
You mean like the Olympic logo ;-)

Bungling incompetence all round - and here's another example. Heard this morning that quite young children (10-13 year-olds) have been vandalising the Richard Jefferies House at Coate Water (breaking the 180 year old windows). The Richard Jefferies Society and Jefferies Land Conservation Trust are saying they would like the council to put a tenant in part of the house but the council are saying they are constrained by the... (wait for it)... Right to Buy legislation."

Grrr... the kids need a clip round the ear, and the bureaucrats a kick up the backside :-)

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jun 9, 2007 08:14:47
Replying to Littlestone

and the bureaucrats a kick up the backside.....

In truth though, a kick up the backside isn't the precise answer when it comes to heritage bureaucracy. VBB has put his finger on it when he says EH shouldn't be "in sole charge". Or at least, I would suggest, should be much more open to public participation in their decisions.

Two recent examples of things that would have gone better if they'd simply made the public party to discussions rather than adopting a "we alone must decide" attitude :

First, how on earth, at a minute to midnight in the Silbury project have they STILL not decided whether to put a marker in the fill or not? Could this not have been resolved to everyone's satisfaction years ago?

Second, we have on the 5 March "To put your minds at rest, there are certainly no plans to deposit anything inside Silbury Hill" and then on 1 June we have "We are not placing offerings inside the Hill, other than the 'time capsule' being designed by the children of Avebury school."

Its all self-inflicted embarrassment IMO.
Its good to talk.