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Arnold · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:21 pm

Keep off the grass: 'Brainless' council blasted for erecting bizarre sign on tiny scrap of land

No evidence that the council was responsible. It's far more likely that it was stolen elsewhere and put there as a joke. Or to create a bogus Mail article.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Arnold wrote:

No evidence that the council was responsible. It's far more likely that it was stolen elsewhere and put there as a joke. Or to create a bogus Mail article.

Yep. I've just been reading that one and thinking to myself "I'd bet my arse the council didn't put it there".

One day we might get a proper Press Complaints Commission that would force the DM to apologise to the council with an article of equal prominence if this turns out to be bullshit.

moonkatt · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:46 pm

Bet the sign had been there ages, perhaps longer than the houses either side had tarmacced drives and drop kerbs.

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

I was just thinking the tarmac on either side looked very new. Could have been a big patch of grass that was replaced with tarmac because people kept ignoring the sign and were parking on it :roll:

AshleeK · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:56 pm **Posts:** 152

Even if the council did erect the sign, why do they care so much? It's more funny than anything.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4311

AshleeK wrote:

Even if the council did erect the sign, why do they care so much? It's more funny than anything.

Public service = scum.

They make us pay tax. Us. And others benefit from it!

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:44 am

How many council staff does it take to change a light bulb? One... but he needs a crane
It's a specialist contractor, but this is a Mail article. One sensible comment.

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Now hang on a minute! This crew probably spend all their lives maintaining lights, which is why they have a van fitted with a cherry picker. They don't appear to be carrying any ladders (no room on the roof), so the cherry picker's the only way to reach the bulb. The other lights they had to deal with that day were probably at two or three times the height. People who do this kind of work put on their hi-viz and hard hats when they start work, and they stay on all day - it's what they get used to. The most efficient way to do this kind of maintenance work is to carry the LEAST kit you need to do EVERY job you need to do.

- Robineff, Hampshire, 25/7/2011 9:21
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Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:26 am

Local councils (quite rightly) can't sue. A contractor, as I understand it, would be able to. So just say it's the council every time.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:31 am

Talking of contractors, anyone confused by Cameron's talk about the "monopoly of the state" stuff?

Tower Hamlets Council don't even have a monopoly on rubbish collection in Tower Hamlets.

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:29 pm

You missed a spot: Council workmen spend two days laying 300ft of Tarmac... around one parked car

Last sentence;

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The council added that the alternative would have been to delay work, resulting in the road being closed longer than necessary causing inconvenience and costing the taxpayer more in the long run.

Damned if they did, damned if they don't.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Family forced to apply for retrospective planning permission for their six-year-old daughter's Wendy house

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... house.html

To be fair to the council, that is a big-ass Wendy house yo!

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Wot no sadface picture? A missed opportunity.

- Tom, MKSSR, 9/8/2011 10:53

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:03 am

Too high, too large, could be used as a dwelling. No shit, Sherlock.

Danson's Forehead · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am **Posts:** 718

Silly bastards. You'd need permission for a building of that size, whatever it is for. There's no special exclusion clauses written into the law for wendy houses, for fuck's sake. These are national laws, and there is no flexibility for it to be waived by the local authority on a case-by-case basis. If they did, they'd have these things springing up all over the shop.

By the way, what is all this shit about a planning officer walking around their garden without permission? If they've put in an application for an extension, the officer has to visit, otherwise he can't judge whether to grant permission, can he you twonks? What were you expecting to do with the wendy house had you had more prior warning? Paint it in camouflage colours and hope he didn't notice?

Put in the planning application and STFU.

tonysk14 · **Joined:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:44 pm **Posts:** 232

Danson's Forehead wrote:

Silly bastards. You'd need permission for a building of that size, whatever it is for. There's no special exclusion clauses written into the law for wendy houses, for fuck's sake. These are national laws, and there is no flexibility for it to be waived by the local authority on a case-by-case basis. If they did, they'd have these things springing up all over the shop.

By the way, what is all this shit about a planning officer walking around their garden without permission? If they've put in an application for an extension, the officer has to visit, otherwise he can't judge whether to grant permission, can he you twonks? What were you expecting to do with the wendy house had you had more prior warning? Paint it in camouflage colours and hope he didn't notice?

Put in the planning application and STFU.

But their country house is worth a million pounds. Doesn't that exempt them from having to obey silly things like the law. Or perhaps they are going it live in it when that nasty Mr Cable brings in his "hated" mansion tax.

SewerUrchin · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:06 am

When I was a littlun, my Wendy House was a tent-like structure; you fitted the little white plastic poles together, and threw the plastic "house" bit over the top. I could do it myself by the age of six (and it could easily be erected indoors). Oddly enough, no planning permission required.
The "Wendy house" in the article looks more like a bloody shed to me. But, you know, you can't just go with the cheapest way for little girls to play house. Small children are very fussy when it comes to how sturdy their second home is. At least, in Mail Land they are.

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