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VenerableBottyBurp wrote:
being serious for a moment (it won't last) there was a case recent of someone extending their garden into an agricultural area and the manicuring was objected to on the grounds of wildlife and archaeology (or I might have read this when under the influence of drink or something more disorienting like large consumption of mind numbing archaeological theory)...

VBB :)

But if you have planning permission to construct a golf course, does that have any restrictions once it's been given out, or are they allowed then to just do as they please?

This is purely a personal thing, as Addington has a beautiful stream that runs around the 2 sites on the West side and then into a Golf Course which takes up all the Southern side of the stream. I have often wondered how much was laying below the landscaped soil, being so close to two reasonably isolated tombs, and a great source of water. I am so disappointed in the lack of investigation for anything other than Roman in Kent, considering the obvious land bridge and route West. Land is such big business down here that discoveries are often pushed to one side - the Channel Tunnel project is a classic example - they paid for thousands of test pits across the county, and yet the results of the pits developed into nothing at all. Better to classify it as "unknown" rather than cause problems with the scheduled digging of the site by JCB!