A grot on the landscape

By Visiter Newsdesk on Feb 23, 07 12:49 PM

Grot spots are a blight on the whole community. But you really have to sympathise with the neighbours of 51 Scarisbrick New Road.
For more than 11 years Sefton Council has fought a legal battle to get the owner of the property to remove the mountain of rubbish in the house's garden.
It is a fight which any right minded person would support, but you have to wonder just how much money this fight has cost? Council tax payers' money which could have been better spent elsewhere.
But the battle still goes on to what councillors have labelled a nightmare and which is a drain on valuable resources.
It just makes you wonder at what stage are enforcement notices enforceable?
Meanwhile concerns were raised this week over another publication's "exclusive" reports that Sefton was to be "privatised".
The reports concern an ongoing review of services at Sefton Council which actually began last September and which was originally exclusively reported in the Visiter five months ago. We have been following the story closely ever since.
As usual, the Visiter is first with the news.