28th June 2005, 05:11 PM
I'm quite happy to recommend an evaluation on a one-house development. I don't have to do it very often, but in fact, I did this morning, on an undesignated site, based on information from the local society that medieval artefacts have been coming from the area. I'm quite happy to justify it to the planners (but rarely have to in any depth beyond a letter), and the question of whether or not it is going to cost the developers a prohibitive anount of money is not one I'm bothered about. However, I'm quite lucky in that house prices here are so ludicrous that the cost of such an evaluation would be swallowed up in most circumstances by the likely inflation of the house's selling price between the start of the development project and its completion.
It seems like you work in a different part of the country to me Kitty - possibly the north of England...? I've mentioned the apparent differences between the north & south in previous postings. I'd be interested to hear about some of what you have experienced, and the reasons why. I'm wondering if development pressures in the south mean that developers and planners have become accustomed to more stringent archaeological work programmes quicker than in the north, whilst the high selling prices in the south mean that the costs of such programmes are more readily absorbed or passed on the the eventual customer.
Discuss!
It seems like you work in a different part of the country to me Kitty - possibly the north of England...? I've mentioned the apparent differences between the north & south in previous postings. I'd be interested to hear about some of what you have experienced, and the reasons why. I'm wondering if development pressures in the south mean that developers and planners have become accustomed to more stringent archaeological work programmes quicker than in the north, whilst the high selling prices in the south mean that the costs of such programmes are more readily absorbed or passed on the the eventual customer.
Discuss!