Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine

The thing I like about Janice's posts is that she can tell me what is happening here in Britain. Despite the fact that barn conversions are very common where I live in the Lancashire countryside (several applications get put in our parish mag every month) I didnt know about this, and none of the barn owners told me about it as the topic often comes up.

During the past few years you have told me all sorts of things about europe I didnt know about.

Is there any chance that you could get a job to publicise all these silly things of which both the British and continental populations are ignorant of?

Michael

 
This is the sort of "bad situation" that always arises when the __central ("GEEZE! It worked on paper!") planners__ get the chance to put their utopian ideas to work in the "real" world inhabited by "real" people:

"..To convert a barn into a house in Britain today you must survey it for bats before you apply for permission to convert. The bat survey must be done by an "accredited" bat group and only in the summer months. Guess what? Bat groups are very busy in the summer and charge very high fees. If the survey says there are rare bats in the building you may be refused permission to convert; as it turns out, the bats, not you, own the building. So what happens? People respond to incentives. Most barn owners resent and detest bats. I'm told playing Wagner at full volume clears a building of bats in short order. A simple scheme of small tax rebates for owners of barns who add bat-roosting boxes to their houses would achieve good will as well as bat babies. But it would not make paid work for bat groups.

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Received on Fri Dec 28 05:30:04 2007