Noticed the Elite was covered in Dust too, though building work was going on nearby or something. Another thing to do this weekend 
Builders out here painting houses and i can't believe their using a cherry pickers to paint the bedroom windows. is health and safety that pathetic they can't use a ladder or a small tower anymore.
Ladders these days are only really for Access, if you have to work off them, then only for a limited time, ie, not all day and not unoccupied, having said that you would probably get way with up to 4 or 5 m with HSE on ladders.
Towers are a pain in the bum, especially if you have to move them every so often.
Cherry Picker above 5 m all day long for Me in Radio Comms, unless its a Radio Mast, then you have climb the bloody thing and HSE really does go out the window then plus getting all to old for all that now.
i think its more a case as the councils paying the bill. if private property it would of been ladders.