9th February 2013, 03:04 PM
That's quite poor...
Had to do a WSI recently for a (English) site which had planning permission from a District Council with a Condition saying that a scheme of archaeological mitigation had to be commisioned post-permission, but without any specifics at all - made writing the WSI quite tricky, having no idea what mitigation was expected! A phone call to the county mountie determined that they hadn't even been consulted in the process and my call was the first they'd heard about it - they weren't impressed! At least in this case there's an out-of-date DBA to work from. Seems to be an increasing amount of this sort of thing going on
Had to do a WSI recently for a (English) site which had planning permission from a District Council with a Condition saying that a scheme of archaeological mitigation had to be commisioned post-permission, but without any specifics at all - made writing the WSI quite tricky, having no idea what mitigation was expected! A phone call to the county mountie determined that they hadn't even been consulted in the process and my call was the first they'd heard about it - they weren't impressed! At least in this case there's an out-of-date DBA to work from. Seems to be an increasing amount of this sort of thing going on