[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, indeed. It is farcical.
But as mentioned in a previous post if you are asking yourself for permission, you are sure to get it. Success on a plate,nae bother.

What is dafter is that they will chop down two beautiful mature trees and replace these with striplings...at what cost.
They could leave the two horse chestnuts and save the money for the chopping down,the purchase and the planting of new trees...but it would not surprise me if(when it all comes out) that axing these trees is part of the T's and C's of getting the lottery funding.

We have a rake of shops around what will be the town square, that are empty...but they will waste money on street art(statues) and benches.
We had benches and the council removed them because the street drinkers were using them.
So rather than tackle the street drinkers, the council in its wisdom(?) removed the benches.
Does that make any sense at all?