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moss Jan 16, 2009 15:34:19
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Oh my god. I wasn't aware of that, and it's in my own county. I also note the irony of disturbing a prehistoric site (albeit not a ceremonial one) to make room for a garden of remembrance - interesting how ritual treatment of death has developed over the millenia!

I totally agree about the nonsensical nature of the "decision making process" - as you say, why have national and international heritage bodies if a tin-pot local council can do what it likes anyway?

Hereford local council got hauled up in front of the judge over the road built over the Rotherwas Ribbon, (and found guilty) sadly the road had already been built. But if you read the planning application that went through on the Bonds Garage development, the list of 'objections' was a helluva lot longer than the paltry few in favour.

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nigelswift Jan 16, 2009 16:43:14
Replying to moss

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.