<![CDATA[Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no]]>Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/688e0ee3-8524-4883-898f-9338a75a62e5/unauthorised-playground-in-knowsley-leaves-council-puzzled-https-www.bbc.co.uk-news-articles-cwyxjx66j0noRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 09:34:22 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 16:53:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:14:00 GMT]]>@afewbugs I think Β£800 for that is insurer-speak for "go away". At that premium, you'd think getting crushed by a notice board was a weekly occurrence! I don't drive, but from what I can tell, that's already about double the typical yearly premium for car insurance, and those do routinely injure people.

I wish there was some way of escaping this deadlock, perhaps giving local councils the ability to make long-term investments, which are then used to self-insure against these one-in-a-million events like death by notice board. Requiring the services of private sector insurance firms for the most basic of public facilities isn't a practical way of going about things 😞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.seabass.systems/users/seabass/statuses/01KPP50Q3X924QANWCEK0QA3YWhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.seabass.systems/users/seabass/statuses/01KPP50Q3X924QANWCEK0QA3YWMon, 20 Apr 2026 19:14:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:44:00 GMT]]>@afewbugs When it comes to work in the community, it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/ap/users/116393345562529887/statuses/116438508514375801https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/ap/users/116393345562529887/statuses/116438508514375801Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:44:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:47:39 GMT]]>@afewbugs We're having a similar problem in our neighborhood. We actually had a really nice notice board at our local park, but a novice Semi-truck driver got lost on our neighborhood streets and backed over it. The city has no funds for low-priority items like this and prohibits us from fixing it ourselves. πŸ˜•

One of these days I'm just going to go down there and throw up a new one myself and damn the consequences.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/ap/users/115759424305280141/statuses/116438286955098854https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/ap/users/115759424305280141/statuses/116438286955098854Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:47:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:43:18 GMT]]>@afewbugs Reminds me of the guerrilla highway sign in Los Angeles. I think 99% Invisible did a story about it a couple of years back.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MythingPerson/statuses/116438269854667643https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MythingPerson/statuses/116438269854667643Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:43:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:41:29 GMT]]>@JimmyB yes that was someone else, other side of the country πŸ˜‚ But they definitely had the right idea

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438262717261900https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438262717261900Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:41:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:30 GMT]]>@afewbugs I wish people felt more empowered to just get on with things, there's a couple of things to do with the waterway near me that we could ask thames water about...or they could Just Happen one night

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/kaimac/statuses/116438235240451536https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/kaimac/statuses/116438235240451536Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:18 GMT]]>@afewbugs just realised - the playground was another project, not yours, right? πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒ

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/JimmyB/statuses/116438234438976521https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/JimmyB/statuses/116438234438976521Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:50 GMT]]>@afewbugs well good for you!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/JimmyB/statuses/116438209034460710https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/JimmyB/statuses/116438209034460710Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:23 GMT]]>@JimmyB yes I'm hoping this is how this will play out, it will look too bad in the media for the council to remove this playground

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438207278285550https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438207278285550Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:26:32 GMT]]>@afewbugs yeah… I think jus do good stuff and don’t ask for permission. Politicians can always be shamed for opposing good stuff after all.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/JimmyB/statuses/116438203944002874https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/JimmyB/statuses/116438203944002874Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:26:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:08:53 GMT]]>So we thought no problem, post, bit of concrete, a few boards and some perspex, we can do that. But then we made the mistake of asking the council, who said it would be Β£800 to cover legal liabilities if it fell on someone and ongoing yearly costs, and we needed a formal incorporated structure to do it. So we didn't, and I still feel bad about letting those people down. I wish we'd just done it in the night and pled ignorance if someone eventually noticed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438134538159220https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438134538159220Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:08:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:06:25 GMT]]>I definitely feel it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission with this sort of thing, council fear of litigation definitely stops a lot of good things from getting off the ground.

Back in lockdown I was part of a little composting/grow your own collective, nothing formal just sharing advice and resources. And we did a little workshop on a local estate to see if anyone wanted a composter or raised beds or anything. And it turned out they didn't but what they did want was a community noticeboard next to the bus stop.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438124840943094https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116438124840943094Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:06:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unauthorised playground in Knowsley leaves council puzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxjx66j0no on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:01:01 GMT]]>@afewbugs
I expect to see a compoface article in the Liverpool Echo by the end of the week.

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