HOT OFF THE PRESS

HOT OFF THE PRESS

Barding up the right tree

There were letters in Monday’s paper from Tony Crooks, Maurice, Felicity and Dominic King, and Christine Golton. Tony was pointing out that there’s statistical evidence that suggests that the survey forms were delivered to just a fraction of the houses that should have received them. The Kings in their letter expose how difficult it would be to enforce designated barbeque areas, and the likelihood that barbeques would continue all over the park. Christine Golton expressed scepticism about the council’s claim that it would be difficult to enforce the byelaw banning barbeques, asking why the byelaws exist in the first place, and pointing out they’re enforced in other parks. Then on Wednesday, there were letters from Hilary Benn and Colin Smith. Mr Benn was calling for everyone to make their voice heard before it’s too late. And Colin Smith set out a list of reasons why barbeques in parks are a bad idea. Finally in today’s paper, there was an article by columnist Oliver Cross about the NGT proposal and the tendency these days to view trees as nothing more than replaceable carbon sequestration units. This article is from Oliver’s regular Friday night column, which today mostly deals with Oliver’s thoughts about his recent visit to Dagmar Wood to view a Theatre of the Dales production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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