A Warm West End

Well today brings warm sunshine to the West End and yet again my thoughts are drawn to back-courts and back lanes, forgotten green spaces and corners in which to dwell. This area of the city has more than its fair share of parks and private gardens but it still strikes me, when walking through the leafy back lanes, how much beautiful space is wasted and left to fester. Quiet lanes of rough and broken cobbles, full of bins and bulk uplift collections that could be so much more; quiet cycle and pedestrian thoroughfares, essentially linear parks. It really wouldn’t take much funding – just a bit of balls from the council and bit of co operation from the residents…neither currently forthcoming.