Council

The council may have been on the case of the polling station (see last post) but they, or whoever it is who does the fences on the Manor Park estate, are not doing so well there. That is to say the estate built on what was the site of the Manor Hospital.

It rather looks as if the fencing gang went out with lengths of four by one cut to the standard size and were stuffed when one of the lengths to be replaced was, for some reason, a few inches longer than the standard size. A mend which irritates me every time I go past it, although not to the point of doing it again myself. Perhaps I will take measurements - although that means remembering both to take a tape and to walk that way.

I might add, that this particular sort of fence lasts no time at all, say less than five years before it is looking pretty tatty. This would not matter if its only purpose were to mark the line of a new hedge, but that was not the idea here. Not sure that emailing the council would do any good at all; they probably have more important things to worry about than supervising the fencing that developers see fit to erect around new housing. Perhaps the supervisors in question have been made redundant in some round of cuts.