The garages on Tragus Rise are in a state of flux, a council spokesman said to me yesterday. He wouldn’t give me his name, nor the crux of the flux so I resorted to the underhand but tedious means of breaking into the planning offices. Actually, it wasn’t so much of a break-in as a send-Devious-in since the imp can gate in and out faster than dog can break wind.
It appears that the land – some 100 yards by 40 – is under consideration of sale and the only sticking point is the council-owned and leased garages occupying it. Lo and behold, some unknown person has stolen all the buildings and the land is now clear. What a surprise. The last time this happened (to the allotments on Badger Lane) the council promised the revenue from the sale would go to buy books for the school library. Unfortunately, a sudden crisis meant that it was spent on a new fencing and Victorian-style street lighting for Paget Road, which coincidentally is where Howard Peabright, the Chair of the council, lives.
The only consolation in the affair is the house at the end which will find that the last fifty yards of its garden will be recovered by the new owners.
Image:The Little Black Book of Red Tape: Great British Bureaucracy by Ian Vince
4 comments:
I'm thinking that Howard is going to be a resident of downunder in the hereafter.
Australia?
Even Hell isn't that bad!
Oh! That man is going down (eventually anyway).
Minor misappropriation of funds, surely!
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