Light relief ?

To borrow a phrase from Ken Dodd, “how tickled I am” so see that a banner proclaiming the switching on of the Chatteris Christmas Lights has now been adorning the railings at the Railway Lane /High Street junction for several days.

Does this mean that the “jobsworths” employed by the County Council have finally understood that when Councillors determined that obstructions should be removed from visibility railings, the operative word was “obstructions”. Have officers at last grasped that only items which might impair visibility should be banned?

Up until now the jobsworths in Fenland have been determinedly ripping down community information banners, insisting this was decreed to their employers.

Even the hard-working and award winning Chatteris In Bloom team were prevented putting up carefully designed baskets of flowers on the railings at this central point as officers insisted such beautification was not permitted!

As it is perfectly clear to any sensible person that the Christmas Lights Banner presents no hazard and contributes absolutely nothing to impeding visibility, I am hopeful it will be left exactly where it is and it will stay in place for the rest of November, and until the Christmas Lights Committee decide it can come down.

And I trust that the jobsworths are now resigned to restricting their activities to preventing hazards rather than impeding the commendable efforts of community groups.

signed Contented (at least for the moment) of Chatteris