16th November 2010, 06:46 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:The advantage to the developer of agreeing to fund such work is the resultant planning permission.
To continue to use Jack's example, what about the disadvantage to the adjacent landowner? I suspect that you could very quickly wind up in a sticky legal situation if people are denied planning permission because the next-door neighbour refuses to co-operate with even non-intrusive survey. How would you compel them to participate? While I can see no problem with asking for desk-based research and inclusion of the results of previous work related to the site, any level of fieldwork on land owned by someone other than the developer is almost certain to cause problems, even if it is non-intrusive.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'