Next week, on the 26th August, the Council’s Executive Board will meet at the Civic Hall; and one of the items our senior councillors will be considering is the Woodhouse Moor barbecue issue.
The report sets out three options: enforce the bylaws; put in a concrete barbecue area as originally suggested; or trial a barbecue area using “cellular grass paving”. At a cost of £22,400.
Cellular grass paving, to you and me, is the matting they put on car parks so that clumps of dishevelled, petrol-soaked grass can poke through the weaving black plastic to give the impression, the illusion, of open green space.
In other words, it’s exactly the same policy, with a material just as unsightly as concrete. The trial will be from the 1st of April “until the end of the barbecue season”, whenever that may be.
April fool! The one thing to be said for it is that the trial will be run throughout the local elections.