1st November 2011, 12:02 PM
Wax Wrote:Technically if a trench can be classed as major engineering it does need planning permission
That's absolutely true, but it's pretty uncommon. Indeed, I've only heard of it happening twice, and on both occasions, it was because the planner decided that a high-percentage evaluation represented a meaningful start of development, and that they'd therefore require the developer to obtain a specific planning consent for it. In the majority cases I've been involved with, the planner has taken a different approach, and considered archaeological trenching to be equivalent to other site investigation works, and therefore something that could take place without the need for an individual consent. I don't really know whether this is right or not, as I'm not a planner.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum