Re: Why such dirty streets
 

So Graham, are you telling us that the cardboard crown cost £5k to produce? Not saying that the roundabout shouldn't be nice but that crown was tacky.

Re: Why such dirty streets
 

Apparently. I am not an expert but it was for the Freedom of the Borough to the Queens Lancashire Regiment and someone said that was a Kings Crown. I have to admit I don't know.

Re: Why such dirty streets
 

Expected that to go in the last Photo comp 'Blot on the Landscape' . think might have stood a chance.

I understood represented the Accrington Pals regiment badge or summat like that ?

Why didn't the Observer pick up on this and explain it to us all, after all, couldn't miss it could we ? Would have been lovely to have had a small feature around this display .. there again the Observer always seem to miss what is under their nose.

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Think that was preparing the site, for the design of the bedding, for the carpet bedding, planting the carpet bedding, which could be individual plants or blocks, a bit like a jigsaw, then there's the crown, designing, making and painting and installing, then weeding, and watering and cutting the grass. Can't use a strimmer it would strim the flowers of so that means edging shears. There's more to fancy bedding that meets the eye.
I don't know how they manage to spend so much though, our council breaks even or has some left over at the end of the year, and this is one of the worst laid out boroughs in the country, coleshill over one side polesworth at the top, atherstone lower down, and god knows how many villages and hamlets inbetween. getting money to go round that lot and keep everyone happy is a nightmare. Yes they didn't pay for the cctv, or flowers, or cemetary, or parks, town do that, borough do do the trees though. there is alot needs doing, they don't do the car park gardens which look a mess, but at least they aren't god knows how many thousands in debt.
perhaps if they'd got the parks dept to grow the plants and plant them out themselves it wouldn't cost so much, or just put normal bedding in. HMS atherstone get freedom of the town but we don't plant fancy bedding.
That 5k could have paid for those trees, if only half the baskets in ossy were put up, and they'd got decent baskets and watered them twice a week they wouldn't be dead, all I read on here is ifs, posts by unhappy constituents tales of money being wasted.