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VBB Nov 27, 2012 07:21:18
Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:
To someone with no awareness of ancient sites they are not that easy to discern (unlike Avebury).
Even Avebury - in several recent examples utilities contractors have turned up to fix faults and started digging the place up, add to this the peace rave (or whatever it was) where some people (who thought they knew about Avebury) started erecting a stage only to be told they were doing it on part of a scheduled monument, and take the householder unwittingly attempting to build a rear porch or do something about the uneven floor in the kitchen with a kango only to be told that it might be an Avenue stone... (the last bit isn't what happened but you take the point)...

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 27, 2012 08:00:59
Replying to VBB

VBB wrote:
Even Avebury - in several recent examples utilities contractors have turned up to fix faults and started digging the place up
How could that happen more than once? Surely they will have been given the co-ordinates for all WHSs and Scheduled Monuments and SSSIs etc so they'll be flagged up on their systems?

If so they ought to be prosecuted, as it's spookily similar to Priddy - "I was told not to do anything without consulting EH but one of my employees failed to get the message"!

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Nov 27, 2012 08:15:19
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VBB wrote:
tjj wrote:
To someone with no awareness of ancient sites they are not that easy to discern (unlike Avebury).
Even Avebury - in several recent examples utilities contractors have turned up to fix faults and started digging the place up, add to this the peace rave (or whatever it was) where some people (who thought they knew about Avebury) started erecting a stage only to be told they were doing it on part of a scheduled monument, and take the householder unwittingly attempting to build a rear porch or do something about the uneven floor in the kitchen with a kango only to be told that it might be an Avenue stone... (the last bit isn't what happened but you take the point)...
Do all the owners of the properties within the WHS have to apply to have any form of building work done internally VBB? I suppose someone working within their own house (removing and replacing an old floor for instance) may consider that as the site has already been built upon then its actual site had already been disturbed, so a direct replacement doesn't need a planning or building consent.