26th October 2012, 12:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 26th October 2012, 12:59 PM by Dinosaur.)
Wax Wrote:Planning conditions focus on the listed status and forget what might be underneath them. Imagine what might be under the floor level in a Georgian Manor house built on the site of a Mediveal Hall.
Did a job earlier this year which involved hand-digging a service trench up to the wall of a standing building, but didn't include digging down inside or through the wall - the huge potsherds in the stuff the builders were wheeling out (and a quick shufty with a torch at the in situ while they were on a tea-break and the H&S man wasn't about) did rather suggest we were excavating the wrong bit....