The work will be carried out by surveyors working for Enterprise Peterborough, an organisation contracted to provide a number of services to the council including waste collection, recycling and groundsmaintenance.
The ceremony was followed by a charity garden party for 400 people in the grounds of The Prebendal, with all money raised going to the Bomber Command Memorial Maintenance Appeal Fund.
Documents and testimony produced in a case against two USAirways mechanics for allegedly falsifying maintenance documents involving inspections of Airbus A-319 aircraft (the case was dismissed on appeal on timeliness grounds) indicate that FAA regulators may have crossed ethical lines in sharing enforcement information with USAirways in the course of a related, major investigation of its maintenance practices.