As we idly plot our next moves I checked the District Council's web site for the documents relating to our failed (withdrawn) application from just prior to Christmas, and found a new document that I hadn't seen. It was from Beds CC Highways Department. There were various comments about access to our plot and width of the road, etc., - all pretty routine stuff. But then I came across a requirement so downright stupid it beggared belief. We were instructed "to provide a turning area for a fire appliance so that it didn't have to reverse out into the road"
Now how idiotic is that? Firstly, based on the law of averages, the chances of a fire requiring attendance by the fire brigade must be pretty remote. Secondly, even if a fire engine was called out, why couldn't someone stand in the road and hold up traffic whilst it did reverse out? But no, someone "in authority" has decreed that a turning area must be found. Where from? Compulsory purchase?
Where do these people at the council come from - Planet Ga Ga?
I suppose we could always try and buy a nearby field so that the poor loves in the fire brigade don't have to worry about reversing. But then we'd have to provide some means of washing the wheels of the fire engine as they would doubtless be covered in mud. Or worse still, we'd have to create a metalled road surface in the field so the fire engine didn't get stuck. But that of course would require planning permission....... and hey ho, its groundhog day! Give me strength.
Darth Vader of Clifton
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