31st March 2015, 11:58 AM
Most of the actual villa building lay out-with the road corridor, but as part of the scheme a chunk of the adjacent field was rented from the farmer so the villa could be recorded pretty much in toto, then it was to be returned to the farmer once archaeologically sterilised. Presumably this was to fob off any potential protesters, but of course now its a done deal so no one gives a s**t. Pretty standard on infrastructure schemes in my experience, especially where the developer is also the oversight