Locals outraged as ‘absurd’ council bans hanging flower baskets
Petty council officers have brought on outrage after banning hanging baskets within the lovely cathedral metropolis of Salisbury.
Local folks have stated the hanging basket ban might have a major influence on companies each inside and outdoors Salisbury.
Speaking completely to the Express, pub house owners Reece, 25, and Mike, 36, stated the hanging baskets have been an actual draw to their pub, The Royal George.
They added that the ban might have an effect on a small family-run enterprise which provides not simply their pub, however virtually all of the bars in Salisbury.
Mike stated: “We have three hanging baskets ourselves which look absolutely beautiful and we get comments from customers and passersby all the time and it brings people into the pub.
“It’s a little bit of a sneak peek of what we have out in the garden as well, so for this ban to be happening is a little bit absurd because it just then doesn’t bring that attraction to the facia of the pub.”
The pair stated changing the hanging baskets with dwelling pillars as urged by the council wouldn’t be potential.
Mike stated: “We’re looking at living pillars and there is no way we would be allowed to do anything like a living pillar outside the Royal George.”
Mike and Reece stated that they believed the council’s new guidelines will hinder companies that depend on the hanging baskets to draw folks to the pub.
Mike stated: “I think they’re limiting businesses a lot in the aspect of managing to make the frontage of pubs look beautiful for customers and clients.”
The pair additionally concern for the way forward for the small family-run enterprise that provides the hanging baskets to lots of the city’s pubs.
Reece, the pub’s landlord, stated: “We get our hanging baskets from just a little unbiased firm. They get some huge cash from hanging baskets they usually do just about all of the pubs in Salisbury so I’m positive they’re going to take an enormous hit financially from that.”
Reece said the hanging baskets were a big draw for punters to their pub because it helped them stand out from the other buildings around them.
He said: “I’m not allowed a flappy sign outside the front of my pub, so the hanging baskets were to see that there was a business at the end of my road and because I’m a little bit further out of town, without them I would look like just another house.”
The alarm over the hanging basket ban was first raised by Conservative Councillor Eleanor Wills who criticised the decision by the council.
She spoke to the Express about how this decision was against the will of the people and bad for the environment.
Councillor Eleanor Wills said: “It’s completely not what residents wished to see or hear and I believe it actually speaks to the truth that the present council administration are pushing their very own ideology above what residents need.
“I think the other point to make here is that it’s so important that we put the environment at the front of local decision making and this is a key area that local government needs to be working on.
!It’s absolutely not the role of local authorities to be pottering on whether or not you have traditional planting or not.
“It’s much more about air pollution and the health of the community, how we increase biodiversity, it’s got nothing to do with things like ‘Do we keep hanging baskets or not?’ That just doesn’t help anybody.”