Viewpoint

My text for today is prompted by the questions posed by Tony Poole in his Viewpoint article in Volume 15 No. 1, 1997. You might recall the questions that were raised in relation to a residential survey following a paper that he gave on the subject. The various questions arising stemmed from the same source, namely, how far should the surveyor go? The answer of course is that he can never go far enough but the most important feature of the survey is the confirmation of instructions and the statement of what will actually be done; at the same time...