The brats at the skatepark, being male, do have a habit doing strange and needless things. For reasons beyond my comprehension the tree towering over the skatepark has been festooned with trainers. Whether any individual was contained within them when they made their way onto the tree branches is not known. This is not the first time such decoration has been used to 'brighten' the area, a while back one tree was furbished with what appeared to be a pack of yellow toilet tissue. Large streamers hung delicately from the tree, much to the annoyance of the council workmen who had to remove them. No adolescent was hurt in this operation, also to the annoyance of the council workmen!
On the other hand there is little reason to expect youths to behave in a reasonable manner when planning permission, controlled by the council, leads to half demolished buildings such as the one behind. Depending on whom you read planning permission has been agreed for either a dozen houses or a hotel containing eighty bedrooms! Considering the space will struggle to contain a dozen houses, even at the size they build them today, an eighty bedroom hotel is pushing it! To make matters worse there will be parking space for about six cars! However owing to some planning regulations that I fail to comprehend to avoid the planning permission running out a start has to be made on demolishing the old clinic. As the observer not wearing dark glasses and looking the other way will note the building is half demolished. Quite how the brats have not yet managed to set fire to the place is a wonder as they have frequently set many items around here on fire, litter bins, post boxes, old huts, even the skatepark itself had the covering material burnt off! Yet there the mess that is this building stands, unburnt. I may do it myself if this goes on much longer. How much for the land, Price on application, which means too much! I reckon this may lie derelict until the recession is over.
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4 comments:
When I was in Landscape Architecture school, we would have called that tree with the hanging tennis shoes ART!!
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An enterprising chap would look at this situation as an opportunity to open a used shoe store. One of a rather nefarious nature might even go as far as to claim that they had been worn by famous athletes in order to jack the price up. Not that you would ever think of doing something like that, of course.
The 'Turner Prize' has just been judged here and that tree would have had a very good chance of winning that prize!
Fish, Cheers Fishy, I am off to borrow a ladder right away!
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