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Colchester and its “cat’s litter tray” that cost £93,000! 😮

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FriedGreenTomatoes2 Thu 12-Dec-24 15:03:37
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A LOCAL authority has been criticised for spending more than £90,000 (of taxpayers money, let us not forget) to “cover a roundabout in sand” as part of a city improvement project.

Campaigner, Tony Bland, 52, said the revamped Albert Roundabout in Colchester, Essex, looks like a “desert island” after its topsoil was replaced to prevent weeds growing.

It was part of a project intended to improve visitors’ first impression of Colchester when arriving there by train.

I bet local residents would have preferred to see the potholes in their roads being filled instead!

What a waste of public money. It beggars belief doesn’t it?

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Wyllow3 Fri 13-Dec-24 14:34:13

It is a sign of the times and city centres up and down the country are suffering, aren't they. Same here - outskirts have great "retail parks". Like I said above, I'm in favour of limited projects like this one and don't see it as a vanity project, but not to spend one lots more like this.

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MissAdventure Fri 13-Dec-24 15:01:44

At least people's last memory will be of this lovely roundabout as they disappear into a pothole.

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Mt61 Fri 13-Dec-24 17:14:24

It would have been cheaper to tarmac it 🙄

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Mt61 Fri 13-Dec-24 17:14:40

MissAdventure

At least people's last memory will be of this lovely roundabout as they disappear into a pothole.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Allira Fri 13-Dec-24 17:27:10

Mt61

It would have been cheaper to tarmac it 🙄

😯

Causing even more flooding!

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Mollygo Fri 13-Dec-24 17:38:36

MissAdventure

At least people's last memory will be of this lovely roundabout as they disappear into a pothole.

🤣🤣🤣

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Pittcity Fri 13-Dec-24 18:52:15

Drove around this roundabout twice today and it looks fine and does it's job. It's finished and there doesn't seem to be any storm damage. It'll take time for the plants to establish.
Not worth the amount quoted but better than the uncut grass and weeds of other similar areas.

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SillyNanny321 Fri 13-Dec-24 21:46:24

No proper Bus Station in Colchester & not likely to ever be one!

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Lilibet01 Fri 13-Dec-24 22:48:44

Here in Qld Australia our local Council has put Artificial Turf on some of the traffic Islands. It looks great, a green clean look that’s easy to blower vac the leaves from. ✅

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Allira Fri 13-Dec-24 22:50:56

Lilibet01

Here in Qld Australia our local Council has put Artificial Turf on some of the traffic Islands. It looks great, a green clean look that’s easy to blower vac the leaves from. ✅

😯

Just shocking - what are they thinking?

Which part of Queensland is that please?

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Allira Fri 13-Dec-24 22:54:34

Brisbane.

They're replacing grass in parks with artificial turf too. Bonkers.

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Oreo Fri 13-Dec-24 23:13:36

Weather related maybe? Hot weather bleaches real grass so you just get brown with bare patches.

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MaizieD Fri 13-Dec-24 23:47:25

SillyNanny321

No proper Bus Station in Colchester & not likely to ever be one!

Thanks for that, SillyNanny. I didn't think that a rather bleak looking 'waiting room' and a few bus stops at the roadside really constituted a 'bus station😆

Even the very old one in the 1950s at the bottom of St Johns St. was a better effort than that...

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BlueBelle Sat 14-Dec-24 06:11:16

Here in Qld Australia our local Council has put Artificial Turf on some of the traffic Islands. It looks great, a green clean look that’s easy to blower vac the leaves from. ✅

OMG don’t you realise how dreadful that stuff is for the environment Who on earth passed that to happen and you re cheering it ! please think beyond ….. it looks tidy …. For heavens sake

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