So they don’t want the house prices to rise by having them listed until they have bought them - interesting

Incidentally after practice the listing process takes much less than an hour!

 

 

Morning, chums!

 

We have problems with at least one local group that should know better who are recording buildings, but who do not share any information with the HER ‘because you might List the building’. In vain have I pointed out that

 

a)     The Local Authority is not the body that keeps and develops the Heritage Assets Register

b)     Anyone can put a building up for Listing (although the process of working through all those forms on the EH site probably puts off 90% of potential applicants…)

c)      I have more pressing things to do with my time, and

d)     What’s the point in doing building recording if it isn’t published?

 

Vince

 

 

Although I have always been keen to allow  the public free access to archaeological / historic information I have occasionally felt the need to withhold it, if only for a specific amount of time. For example if an evaluation was undertaken and revealed a significant site but development was postponed for some years or indefinitely I preferred not to put it on the HER immediately and risk it being trashed by nighthawks.  So when I was developing the Milton Keynes HER I included a field giving the year when the information could be made available to the public. Evaluation data could be put on allowing a 3 year margin (or more)  for development to be completed. For data to be used  for an enquiry from a member of the  the general public I would sort up until the current year which would exclude the sensitive data but I would allow full disclosure to archaeological contractors/ students undertaking research. Not perfect but an attempt to obtain a compromise. Such a procedure could be useful in making sure that contractors do not totally rely on web information but do contact the HER.