Colchester and its “cat’s litter tray” that cost £93,000! 😮

It is a sign of the times and city centres up and down the country are suffering, aren't they. Same here - outskirts have great "retail parks". Like I said above, I'm in favour of limited projects like this one and don't see it as a vanity project, but not to spend one lots more like this.

At least people's last memory will be of this lovely roundabout as they disappear into a pothole.

It would have been cheaper to tarmac it 🙄

MissAdventure

At least people's last memory will be of this lovely roundabout as they disappear into a pothole.

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Mt61

It would have been cheaper to tarmac it 🙄

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Causing even more flooding!

MissAdventure

At least people's last memory will be of this lovely roundabout as they disappear into a pothole.

🤣🤣🤣

Drove around this roundabout twice today and it looks fine and does it's job. It's finished and there doesn't seem to be any storm damage. It'll take time for the plants to establish.
Not worth the amount quoted but better than the uncut grass and weeds of other similar areas.

No proper Bus Station in Colchester & not likely to ever be one!

Here in Qld Australia our local Council has put Artificial Turf on some of the traffic Islands. It looks great, a green clean look that’s easy to blower vac the leaves from. ✅

Lilibet01

Here in Qld Australia our local Council has put Artificial Turf on some of the traffic Islands. It looks great, a green clean look that’s easy to blower vac the leaves from. ✅

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Just shocking - what are they thinking?

Which part of Queensland is that please?

Brisbane.

They're replacing grass in parks with artificial turf too. Bonkers.

Weather related maybe? Hot weather bleaches real grass so you just get brown with bare patches.

SillyNanny321

No proper Bus Station in Colchester & not likely to ever be one!

Thanks for that, SillyNanny. I didn't think that a rather bleak looking 'waiting room' and a few bus stops at the roadside really constituted a 'bus station😆

Even the very old one in the 1950s at the bottom of St Johns St. was a better effort than that...

Here in Qld Australia our local Council has put Artificial Turf on some of the traffic Islands. It looks great, a green clean look that’s easy to blower vac the leaves from. ✅

OMG don’t you realise how dreadful that stuff is for the environment Who on earth passed that to happen and you re cheering it ! please think beyond ….. it looks tidy …. For heavens sake