"It's alleged they were acting for Wiltshire Council but none of us can work out why it has been placed in the middle of a field," he said. Mr Chivers said he had been at the opening of a new club house at the cricket club when he was asked by local residents why the council was "wasting money" on a "gateway to nowhere". "I'm told that two men just turned up and installed the gate with another one watching," he said.
"They have made a great job of it but none of us can work out why it has been placed in a middle of a field. I have contacted the Rights of Way at County Hall asking for a explanation, when the council is so short of money this just is not acceptable." But a council spokeswoman said the kissing gate had been installed as part of a planning application to change the field's use from agricultural land to a cricket field.
"The cricket club are putting up a fence to separate the cricket field from where cattle are grazing," she said. "And because there's a public footpath going through the field, a gate has been put in so the cricket club know where the fence has to go. The club are paying for the fence and the gate so it's not costing tax payers anything."
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For 'independent' read right-wing.
Right-wingers are always criticising councils as they see potential vast profits should not-for- profit council services be privatised.
Then cursory examination of their criticism reveals them to be a complete prat. Happens every day!
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Putting in a gate like that correctly is quite a skilled job, so you'd want skilled labour. Putting up a fence is a donkey job so you'd get lower paid contractors in. As such you wouldn't necessarily get the two jobs done at the same time. Furthermore you'd do the gate first as it would be easier for the fence contractors to build the fence attached to the gate posts than to put in posts in precisley the right spots.
Seems the elected member is a bit of an idiot if he doesn't understand that. Indeed hopefully his constituents will realise he's a dummy and vote for somebody else when he's up for re-election.
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