3rd April 2007, 04:39 PM
My worst one is when I sent through a copy of a brief to the planner for their file. On the cover letter as always I specified that they should not discharge the conditions until all works had been completed and I would confirm this in writing. The planner saw 'discharge condition' on the letter and discharged the condition. That was for a major urban cemetery.
Another fun one, in a borough which does not even mention underground archaeology within its UDP, all explanatory material in the document refers only to buildings archaeology, placed a building recording condition on a green field. The text of the condition read 'archaeological and architectural survey of the standing buildings' There was no way they would let me stretch that to the excavation. The curse of the automatic database of conditions...
Another fun one, in a borough which does not even mention underground archaeology within its UDP, all explanatory material in the document refers only to buildings archaeology, placed a building recording condition on a green field. The text of the condition read 'archaeological and architectural survey of the standing buildings' There was no way they would let me stretch that to the excavation. The curse of the automatic database of conditions...