I’m afraid I would rather not see permanent roadside memorials. We have one halfway round a walk that we do. A young man came off the road in his car at speed, crashed through two fences and down a steep embankment. There is now a permanent brick structure incorporating a seat and a place to plant flowers. I have no objections to his friends and family gathering there to commemorate him, but they tend to leave a mess behind when they do and it becomes unsightly. They obviously feel that it is someone else’s job to clear it up. I don’t know why there are not planning regulations governing the erection of these permanent memorials.
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