20th May 2010, 12:23 PM
Still waiting for the exciting in-house training session on PPS 5, but I'm with you on all of that. Has been b****y annoying on a really rather large number of jobs in the past to leave stuff 'in situ' then drive past 6 months later and notice that it's all been trashed - unnofficially one or two of the curators around here have realised that they're completely wasting their time naively thinking in situ stuff stays in situ for more than 5 minutes after the planning condition(s) is signed off, but their hands are a bit tied (and presumably even more so now, handcuffs and legchains as well)....luckily my last 'leave in situ and redesign' evaluation now has a planning condition attached for everything including drains etc with specified minimum invert levels, archaeological cover etc written into the planning condition, but that's a rare victory.....