medieval street frontages

[the invisible man]

It would seem that the developer is not to blame if he has complied with all the conditions. It is the conditions that are to the blame if they place no constraint on the unrecorded removal of the remains on the street frontage, and there is no nedd to change any plans, as in Troll's scenario there was no requirement for pres insitu anyway.

Don't want to teach the curators to suck eggs, or state the obvious, but builders do not work to the planning application drawings, which are pretty pictures and generally at small scale and not very many of them. The working drawings which are, err, worked to, are very detailed and numerous and include engineer's drawings of piles and services and things, which are not normally submitted with a planning application. The structural design is not normally finished, if started, at that stage. If conditions are imposed relating to foundations and underground services, the design will probably be worked out in principle, but minor changes may not get conveyed to the planners, who are not normally in the loop. It's a matter of keeping on top of it, having sight of the contract drawings, being kept up to date and checking it on site.

We owe the dead nothing but the truth.