Open and Closed

The Protecting Sheffield From Flooding Consultation has closed. Yet with all the talk going on in other parts of the country about having more trees in the uplands that strategy did not even figure, was not even mentioned, in the documents provided. When I queried this I was told that a certain officer was dealing with that. But if he was why was it not mentioned?

That speaks volumes about the attitudes that are everywhere in Sheffield City Council where officers and elected members think transparency is one of those things we used to put into a slide projector.

The dogmatic and inflexible policy binding all to artificially open and ordure strewn landscapes can only be explained by money, which of course must come before people's lives and properties and natural beauty.  As Blacka has shown we simply need to stop exploiting the land and trees will return anyway. Managers just have to respect nature.