24th February 2006, 11:41 AM
I agree, it is a terrible compromise. I do many evals in just such sites and I'm always working in the open backyard areas, never the street frontages. Strangely, despite revealing complex strat even in the backyards, they don't go to excavation prior to the street front being developed. Are the designs always sympathetic to surviving strat at the front of the site? I doubt it because we weren't able to evaluate survival in that part. One particular case that i have ranted about on the forum had me evaluate the backyard area and then proceeded to build a structure 3 times the stated size closer to the street, without even a WB! Grrrr!