29th September 2008, 06:08 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Oxbeast
I was more puzzled by the aim of 'initiating and carrying out excavations'. Surely if you're working under PPG16, the company is not initiating anything, they are following a brief. Or perhaps they mean research digs.
This does sound like a throw-back to pre-PPG16 days, when rescue work was more of a public service than something developers were expected to pay for. That sounds to me more like the work of a charity rather than, as Oxbeast points out, work that is initiated by the planning system. Of course, I wasn't there then and can't comment on the historical development of these things.