21st June 2005, 09:25 PM
Wow...this is a bit good! Thanks for a good, frank exchange so far! Thanks Dr Wardle, I don`t fancy doing your mileage in my Polo. I suppose that my gripe with the whole consultancy issue is simply that all too often, Project designs and mitigation strategies bear no resemblance to the actual work carried out on the ground. We have already been told (thankyou Curators) that developers can only be asked to do the minimum required. Theres the "compromise" as per PPG.Trouble is, the consultant then goes about advising the client as to how they may "do the minimum" CHEAPLY. Hold on, theres another compromise? By the time that it lands in the hands of the field teams,we are left with the thinnest glimmer of an interpretation of the meaning of PPG16. Add to that pressures of time and money and the archaeology is then compromised under the trowel. Some one really should be monitoring this.....