25th January 2006, 04:03 PM
It's difficult to justify charging for monitoring; - it would be a bit like the council putting an extra tax on developments, and then there are questions about what do you use the money for? Financing the monitoring service? Don't want to go there...!
We've discussed the possibility of charging for excessive monitoring in the past (ie over and above what would normally be carried out), as a sort of way of charging for the extra work dodgy contractors cause, but never got beyond the theoretical stage. I'd be interested to know if anyone actually implemented a similar idea. I have charged a developer a fee for the extrememly complicated and time consuming amount of work he put me through for the production of a Section 106 legal agreement however.
We've discussed the possibility of charging for excessive monitoring in the past (ie over and above what would normally be carried out), as a sort of way of charging for the extra work dodgy contractors cause, but never got beyond the theoretical stage. I'd be interested to know if anyone actually implemented a similar idea. I have charged a developer a fee for the extrememly complicated and time consuming amount of work he put me through for the production of a Section 106 legal agreement however.