T i m wrote:

That's a very good point. The company wanting to "develop" the field out
back of us ran rings around the neighbours who objected, simply because
we were all first-timers.

Nothing illegal was done, but discretion was used in an area where
arguably it shouldn't have been... and by the time we found this out, it
was too late.

And the work that is actually going on (bulldozers, cranes etc) whilst
the planning is still (supposedly) under discussion?

In our case they played that part straight. The only digging that was
done was in support of the archaeology. We did think of "salting" the
site with a few choice remains, but decided that an invasion by Time
Team would have been worse than the houses.


--
Ian White