Here at Waterfold and Worcester Lodge we recently placed the English Heritage signs previously on our fence, down on the main road. This way more people could see them and could be directed up to Witley Court.
But this was just the start of a wave of invective against us. “You have no right to put private signs up”, “we’re taking this to a higher authority”, you better watch out, you don’t know what you’ve started!!!” etc. At no point would anyone allow us to simply tell them we had only changed an existing sign from plot A to plot B. Village politics. Who needs it?
The Parish Council was initially behind the dark forces of the invectifiers, but we had a word in their ear and they understood we were simply local people living a local life, with no axe to grind – unlike the other parishioners. Hopefully it’s all now resolved, but really!! Do we need all this?