Council award cash grant for flowers to spruce up The Broadway, Watford

11:40am Tuesday 26th February 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Mike Wright, Chief Reporter

More than £1,500 is due to be spent sprucing up a central Watford road with flowers.

A cast-iron planter and plants are due to be installed in The Broadway, Queens Road, following a £1,620 grant from Hertfordshire County Council.

The money has come from the council’s locality budget scheme.

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MarsLander says...
3:28pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Has no-one heard there's a recession on?

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graham1304 says...
9:00pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Or about the potholes that need repairing!

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skint&desperate says...
9:01pm Tue 26 Feb 13

I am disgusted that this is happening. They will be ruined within 24 hours. I am sure that the hospice would benefit a lot more with the money.

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Andrew1963 says...
10:43pm Tue 26 Feb 13

It's oneplanter - it will not make a huge impact in such a large road. It will only helpif it is part of a far more expansive investment and plan to revitalise the road.Frankly without that plan the money on one planter is a waste.

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MarsLander says...
8:35am Wed 27 Feb 13

I think this councillor, by being over-generous with our money, has shot himself in the foot. He has given a bribe that may result in people voting against him rather than for him through his wasteful use of taxpayers money.

Does anyone know who the individual councillor was who proposed this?

I think we should name, and if appropriate, shame him.

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not a regular says...
9:08am Wed 27 Feb 13

It’s a locality budget for councillors to spend as they like in an area they feel it is necessary.

Councillors get £10k and it seems like this councillor had £1.5k left over from a different project and just thought it’d be a nice thing.

Why we need a locality budget at all is beyond me and that should be the real question asked, because £10k is not enough to really make a difference and totalled up between all the councillors that must cost about £250k a year!

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MarsLander says...
9:18am Wed 27 Feb 13

not a regular wrote:
It’s a locality budget for councillors to spend as they like in an area they feel it is necessary.

Councillors get £10k and it seems like this councillor had £1.5k left over from a different project and just thought it’d be a nice thing.

Why we need a locality budget at all is beyond me and that should be the real question asked, because £10k is not enough to really make a difference and totalled up between all the councillors that must cost about £250k a year!
77 councillors, I make that £770,000 per year.

And yes, you're spot on with the question "why".

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not a regular says...
11:10am Wed 27 Feb 13

MarsLander wrote:
not a regular wrote: It’s a locality budget for councillors to spend as they like in an area they feel it is necessary. Councillors get £10k and it seems like this councillor had £1.5k left over from a different project and just thought it’d be a nice thing. Why we need a locality budget at all is beyond me and that should be the real question asked, because £10k is not enough to really make a difference and totalled up between all the councillors that must cost about £250k a year!
77 councillors, I make that £770,000 per year. And yes, you're spot on with the question "why".
Just like to point out I assumed there were 25 councillors. I'm not that bad at maths ;)

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Andrew1963 says...
12:42pm Wed 27 Feb 13

It is County Councillor so 77 in Hertfordshire hence £770,000. There is a story on here that someone was fined £515 for dropping a cigarette butt on the pavement (good job too) - I quick survey of The Broadway reveals that the council is missing at least £51,500 of revenue - £1,500 on a pavement monitor anyone?

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