17 August (Part 1) - It’s an Enviro Crime, no less
As I left a friends house last Sunday, eight days ago, I commented on an
ornamental tree in her front garden. The lady is a bit of a workaholic when it comes to house maintenance
and she said cutting it back was the next job on her list.
Two days later she received a letter from Bexley Council, part of which is shown
below. It is a perfectly polite letter but apparently her overgrown shrub is an Enviro Crime.
She has her suspicions about who complained because she has a well known
busybody for a close neighbour. He sometimes sends complaints to me too.
So the overgrowing shrub will shortly be for the chop but as the lady says, “if
only they were so eager to clean the streets”. I couldn’t help but notice as I
walked home on Saturday that Abbey Road is a right old mess and maybe I should
photograph some nearby Council owned shrubs which are a danger to pedestrians.
I first told Bexley Council that
motorists approaching the Knee Hill lights
could not see them because of overhanging trees on 28th October last year with
two reminders since and they have done nothing about it. Two tier Bexley.
Council owned overhanging trees.