Official’s extreme protest may go unnoticed.
Demolition is unquestionably an emotive subject: One man’s demolition contract could be the loss of another man’s home, history or heritage. So we are quite used to reporting on anti-demolition protests.
But we fear that the protest threatened by a West-super-Mare councilor against the planned demolition of the town’s Tropicana building may be rather less of a hassle to demolition workers than he might think.
On hearing the news that North Somerset Council had been given the go-ahead by Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, to knock down the building, local Lib-Dem councilor Mike Bell announced that he would oppose the plans and that he would “chain himself to the bulldozers”.
Demolition professionals will already have spotted the gaping flaw in Bell’s cunning plan – The building will almost certainly be felled by excavators, not dozers.
So we would strongly advise the company that is eventually charged with the demolition of this disputed building to bring along a decoy dozer and leave some chains close by for convenience. Once the councilor is securely fastened, you should be able to arry out the work uninterrupted.
