'Disgusting' rain garden driving customers away

[Cotty]

This is an odd/new one for me. Has anyone actually heard of a rain garden?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0n733xgnlo

[Biggy Stardust]

Councils have it as an article of faith that everyone will conform to whatever wild ideas they implement. Human nature cannot withstand the genius of local council officials.

[Vanden Saab]

Much like footpaths that ignore desire paths these ideas will never end well.

[juice]

That looks like a bit of pavement that no-one could be bothered to fix, so called it a Rain Garden. Far from containing plants, it looks like it just contains Mozzie larvae...and fag butts

[anonymous-user]

juice said:

That looks like a bit of pavement that no-one could be bothered to fix, so called it a Rain Garden. Far from containing plants, it looks like it just contains Mozzie larvae...and fag butts

I thought exactly the same. Wouldn't it just all turn to mud anyway?

[bstb3]

It's alright though. They're going to put up a sigh to explain the benefits of the puddle / mud patch then everyone will be happy. Also, fluffy unicorns will appear, poop out gold bars and local businesses will thrive on the lack of customers caused by the unresolved parking issues.

[Cotty]

To me it just seems to be another example of a council working against the people they are supposed to be serving. The shops just want some parking bays on the road.

[Biggy Stardust]

bstb3 said:

It's alright though. They're going to put up a sigh to explain the benefits of the puddle / mud patch then everyone will be happy. Also, fluffy unicorns will appear, poop out gold bars and local businesses will thrive on the lack of customers caused by the unresolved parking issues.

The roads in Southport are in a terrible state but the local council are putting up lots of cameras to make the roads safer. Similar stupidity.

[matrignano]

The council spent £5m to turn parking bays into rain gardens, which are used like parking bays anyway only just full of mud?

[irc]

"A rain garden is a patch of earth that usually contains grass, flowers and other plants and is designed to absorb surface run-off water after periods of rainfall."

It's a street FFS. There are drains to take run off water.

[hidetheelephants]

Nothing a couple of tonnes of gravel won't sort. Identify as a buddhist, rake it obsessively for the benefit of a press photographer and presto; instant Zen garden.

[Vanden Saab]

Jasey_ said:

irc said:

"A rain garden is a patch of earth that usually contains grass, flowers and other plants and is designed to absorb surface run-off water after periods of rainfall."

It's a street FFS. There are drains to take run off water.

I suspect the need for rain gardens is driven by the lack of drain cleaning.

Probably because it is full of soil from the rain garden...

[Heathwood]

Cardiff Council. Honestly, I despair.

[matrignano]

CheesecakeRunner said:

It’s meant to be a grass border like you get next thousands of miles of pavements across the country.

The only reason it looks st is, as always, because dheads keep parking their cars on it.

Perhaps because there IS a need for parking, which councils seem obsessed to ignore/remove/ban?

[Silvanus]

This is what they are supposed to look like. A good idea in theory, but not much good if not constructed properly or if people are left to drive/walk all over them. They just aren't suited to some areas.

[James6112]

“It is already filled with litter and rubbish and horrible things. It is bad.”

Here’s a novel idea:-

Stop being a cry baby.

Spend 5 minutes a day picking up the crap & make it look nice outside the shop.

Make the best of it.

(apologies if that was omitted from the report )

That should deter the scum who litter & attract customers to the nice spot

Edited by James6112 on Thursday 29th February 19:18

[anonymous-user]

We have a "balance pond" in my village. They built a new development on a flood plain recently so this balance pond takes the extra water the drains can't cope with....

[Ian Geary]

Balancing ponds do work. They basically do the job that flood plains do before they got built on.

In this situation though, the rain garden has been poorly designed by the council and poorly treated by residents.

[Dogwatch]

pocketspring said:

We have a "balance pond" in my village. They built a new development on a flood plain recently so this balance pond takes the extra water the drains can't cope with....

...and when it's full it tips over into nearby properties?

[swisstoni]

Silvanus said:

This is what they are supposed to look like. A good idea in theory, but not much good if not constructed properly or if people are left to drive/walk all over them. They just aren't suited to some areas.

If they’d designed it more like this and less like a handy parking bay, they wouldn’t have had cars and vans driving on it.

But what does a busy shopping street really need? A handy parking bay or a half arsedly implemented idea someone must have read about in Municipal Monthly.