10th March 2006, 06:35 PM
We are getting into one of my pet hates here, the watching brief. Pointless negative ones that are wasting developers money we try to curtail with the permission of the curator. It's the other type that seems to be at issue here (and the type I often get stuck with). Sites worthy of excavation, but done by watching brief, tend to require much more post ex than either the curator or contractor had in mind. What happens then? Perhaps a new tender process for the PX?