30th August 2012, 06:16 PM
monty Wrote:Put the commercial prices up to the developer....they can afford it !!...
...errr...I've worked on a few jobs for small builders etc where they've been pretty much scuppered by the costs of 'unexpected' archaeology, in several cases due to poor advice either from their 'consultant' or the local curatorial service - and I can think of plenty of schemes that have just never happened due to potential archaeological costs so that the landowner is left stuck with a 'poisonous' bit of land they can't re-sell....I can well believe that some developers have gone titsup due to archaeology, their margins aren't all that big