Council approves repainting of "too bright" playground (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Will the new colour be Tory embarrassed red ?

The children have already waited too long for this to open. Where is it going to be relocated to and how long is it going to take?

It is going to be "Surprise Blue"
And the surprise is the Blue is Red, but a Red fully compliant with EU rules regarding blueness.

Cotswold District Council usually ignore Planning breaches, as they did with the Water Park Lake 31 fiasco.

There they exercised discretion and expediency to leave things exactly as they are.

Funny how this hasn't occurred in this scenario.

This story has had massive national media coverage.
You would have expected senior cabinet members at CDC to take control and limit reputational damage by ensuring proper scrutiny of the affair.
But no...the ludicrous decision to repaint and move play equipment was taken earlier today by a planning officer using delegated powers without recourse to elected representatives.
So much for democracy in the Cotswolds.
We now learn that CDC and Redrow had been involved since last October in secret talks with a tiny handful of self-serving residents whose homes overlook the playground but, conveniently, they decided not to consult the owners of around 270 other homes on the development, many with children who are desperate to use the playground.
Those parents are now required to pay a service charge for an amenity which will lose some features completely and will have others moved to the edge of the playground diredly alongside busy Burford Road where youngsters will be forced to endure unhealthy traffic fumes and noise.
No one would even have known about this stitch-up if the Standard had not broken the story last week.
We need to know who is calling the shots locally because is certainly not the people we voted into power.
As always many deals appear to be done in this district by unelected bureaucrats behind closed doors to the benefit of the privileged few who seem to have remarkable influence.
It happened in the Cotswold Water Park and created a scandal. Now it is happening again. When will they learn and when will the administration at CDC take control and do the job they were elected to do?
This was a lousy, undemocratic decision and Redrow will get itself into even deeper water if it ignores the majority of owners on the development and presses on with these ridiculous changes.

Perhaps CDC having kowtowed to those residents to the point of moving the playground further away, should in turn force the complainants to pay back the difference in price paid at purchase due to the playgrounds proximity to their homes.
That money could be spent providing a better playground for the children in a timely manner rather than all this bearocratic procrastination we have seen so far.