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An economic analysis of the market for archaeological services in the planning process

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Publication date2011
Host publicationAn economic analysis of the market for archaeological services in the planning process
PublisherThe Southport Group
ISBN (print)9780948393204
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Archaeologists became heavily involved in the planning process after 1990, when policy guidance was first published requiring the investigation of possible heritage sites as a precondition for planning permission. Developers pay for the archaeologists’ investigations and generally consider this to be a straightforward cost from which they receive little direct benefit, apart from planning permission. Without the regulations developer demand for archaeologists’ services would be much lower – although some developers (those with a particular interest in the field, those who own sites of particular interest, or those who see it as a public relations tool) would still commission work.