Two items caught my eye in the June 12th number.
First, we have Lidl offering some people adjoining the derelict Organ Inn 10% over the market price to move, thus making the Organ Inn site a better proposition as a shop. Which, if true, strikes me as a bit mean. There will not be a lot of change out of 10% after removal expenses, including stamp duty at 3 or 4%, and I think Lidl ought to be a bit more generous. As it is they are, in effect saying, take our offer or be stuck with a socking great shop peering over your back fence. Too bad if it knocks the value of your house.
Second, we have the headmaster of a school in Ruxley Lane in the county of Surrey wanting to sell off one of his playing fields to pay for upgrading another. So far, so good. Rules require there to be a consultation and if we have views we are invited to write to someone working for the Mitie property maintenance company (http://www.mitie.com/) out of offices in the county hall of the county of Essex, on the other side of the Thames. I wonder what convoluted chain of privatisation gives this result. Do important Mitie-funded fact finding missions in interesting locations in the sun get into the story somewhere? For example, to recently upgraded Brazilian football fields?
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