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Took a stroll this afternoon through the housing estate which has been made out of what was the Horton Hospital, a place whose interesting history is reported at http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/horton.html.

Sight of this litter bin which was both very full and battered beyond its years prompted me to wonder about the maintenance arrangements for the large amount of green space which the planners (or somebody) insisted was left around the houses. The sort of thing which they seem to be much better at in the US - at least those parts of the US which I have visited.

And only moments previously we had been gazing at some low wooden rails bordering grass verges, made up from treated four by four softwood, which looked as if it would start to fall down in not very many years time. Would it just be allowed to rot away or was somebody going to do something about it? What prompted the architects to erect fencing with such a short life? Is it all a plot to allow the green space to degrade to the point where it becomes brown space and the council is allowed flog it off to another lot of developers?