Council waste in Hedge End
By TGRWorzel | Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 17:06
Can anybody explain why this particular sign is needed in Hedge End, on the raised brick flower-beds outside the Co-Op...?
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If you want an example of Council waste, look no further than this sign
There are several points to be made here;
i) Why is one Lib Dem Council sponsoring another, it seems that we might be paying twice to have these beds maintained ?
ii) We pay Council Tax to Eastleigh Borough, so I would expect them to be maintaining these flower beds properly in the first place.
iii) Why on eath do the Councils feel the need to put signs on these flower beds, it is a complete waste of money: the only possible reason I can see a political one, to make Hedge-Enders feel the local LibDem Councils are doing something....
iv) I know its winter at the moment, but the flower beds really aren't much to enthuse about: what exactly are we getting for our being charged twice to maintain these flower beds...?
v) If Hedge End were part of Unitary Authority, instead of part of the three-tier system that we have at the moment, the opportunity for this sort of inter-tier lunancy from the Councils simply wouldn't arise...
All these signs really do, so far as I can see, is show how local Lib Dem Councils waste our money...
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Thanks for the reply Keith.
It is the signs as much as the planting that are a waste of money. Why is it necessary to advertise that one Council is sponsoring a different Council? If the Co-Op were sponsoring the flower bed, for example, signage crediting the sponsors makes a lot more sense.
I'd support the idea of planters being devolved from Borough to Town, so long as the Borough component of our Council Tax was appropriately reduced....
By TGRWorzel at 23:30 on 15/12/09
ReportI'm sorry you see this example of cooperation between the Borough and Town councils as a waste of money.
Long term the solution is probably for the responsibility for the planters to be devolved from the Borough to the Town. In the short term sponsorship by the Town was a way of providing enhanced planting in the centre of Hedge End, which was something people were asking for.
I agree they don't look great at this time of year.
By Keith_Day at 21:53 on 15/12/09
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