After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
Big enough for small children to play pirates in, but filled instead with flowers, they sit in the front gardens of a terrace of brick houses. Here’s their story.
The council has not responded to queries about whether there are plans to put gates across the footpaths too, and further down towards the other end of the road.
“Ultimately, for us the most important thing is that this survives and stays in the community as a service,” says Emma Kennedy, managing director of the Echo.
It’s part of an effort to keep streets cleaner, by reducing the number of bags available for seagulls, foxes and other creatures to tear open, a council official says.
Kieran Lucid says there are three pillars to Polysee’s approach: ambition and beauty in architecture, localism, and appealing to people to respect the referee.
Harry Murphy, whose back garden borders the car park, says he wishes the CCTV was still there. “There’s been carpets dumped there – a whole kitchen once.”
We’d be grateful if you would take a couple minutes to tell us via this survey, so we can ask them about the most-mentioned issues – and publish their answers.
