Festival time again here in the city, so part of the 250 year old Georgian gardens close to where I work are once again being turned into a venue replete with bars, toilets and huge generator sets etc. Once this is complete I, my colleagues, and the wildlife will then be subjected to music from live performances throughout the day for the best part of a month.
This and other recent "innovations" derive from the arrival of a new head honcho who has claimed to be running the city's largest hotel (the University's halls of residence): anyway, we all know that Higher Education is a now a business like any other and needs to maximise its assets.
What is really not noticed in this rush to sweat our assets is the incremental damage that is being done to the ecology of these gardens, parts of which now consist of bark chippings and reinstated turf. Of course the advice given to the CEO was that this is precisely what would happen and tha the gardens should not be used in this manner. Will someone please give the vandal a knighthood or lordship so that he can move on to greater things!
This and other recent "innovations" derive from the arrival of a new head honcho who has claimed to be running the city's largest hotel (the University's halls of residence): anyway, we all know that Higher Education is a now a business like any other and needs to maximise its assets.
What is really not noticed in this rush to sweat our assets is the incremental damage that is being done to the ecology of these gardens, parts of which now consist of bark chippings and reinstated turf. Of course the advice given to the CEO was that this is precisely what would happen and tha the gardens should not be used in this manner. Will someone please give the vandal a knighthood or lordship so that he can move on to greater things!
