9th October 2014, 01:30 PM
Marc Berger Wrote:Nothings going to change until the planning system insists that evaluations are done pre-application...
Actually I've been doing a mineral-extraction site for the last decade or so where there's never been any eval of any sort (not even geophysics). The client's going to get their gravel anyway so they've always worked on the principle of strip-this-year's-bit-and-then-we'll-discuss-it, using a rather generic WSI issued many moons ago by the county. Has all worked fine (brilliant actually, by and large, some cool archaeology) and saved them a fortune, while we've probably ended up with more archaeological data than if someone had gone in and trashed all the intersections with ill-considered and over-machined trial trenches. No nasty surprises when you're going in blind