JAFO wrote:So, do those of you grumbling about the archaeology suggest they just bung some houses in right through the previously undiscovered Roman villa or Bronze Age burials or whatever else could have been there?
To be brutally honest in my case yes.
In the twilight of our lives Mrs S and my retirement plans to build a retirement home would have been totally f*cked.
As it was they did find something : the footings of a 19th century bone mill along with antimony and cadmium necessitating half a metre of replacement topsoil: a heart stopping and expensive moment.
So from now on , call it selfish if you like , but Mrs S and I come first.
I’m through with being green, paying over the odds for organic veg stuff which is usually wilted and cr ap in the box and as soon as I can I’m using up my banked weeks and jetting off to our timeshare in the middle of the Atlantic .
And drive my 3.2 litre comfortably appointed gas guzzler till it drops to bits around me .
Edit to add
The site had already been built on twice in the last two hundred years - why should we hold up our retirement plans ( and inter alia those of the four other families that the development of our lowly acre provided homes for ) on the off chance there might be a bit of broken Roman pottery or a 2d (denarii) piece ffs?