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nigelswift wrote:
That doesn't work with heritage....
Some old hands in the industry might perhaps comment that every special interest group says that environmental considerations should not apply to them for some reason or the other. There was a review of this, particularly as it applies to the perceived special leeway given to archaeology, in a review published over a decade ago (I forget the reference now)

But you may be right: The consultation will provide an acid test of that idea (especially if no work on the newer methods of determining value are looked at by interested parties).

jonmor wrote:
The consultation will provide an acid test of that idea (especially if no work on the newer methods of determining value are looked at by interested parties).
Still beats me how there can be a new, unexplored method of determining value of heritage. Yes, you can measure it in tourist dollars but all you end up with is a value measured in tourist dollars which is not a cultured way of valuing culture. If you project a Mickey Mouse lightshow onto the side of Stonehenge you'll increase its value in tourist dollars but will you increase its cultural value?

Is there a new, unexplored method of determining the value of Beethoven's Ninth, news of which has not yet reached my village?!