Just As I Thought Council Health And Safety Officers Could Not Get Any Madder,

this comes along from officials at Homes in Havering, which manages the flats for Havering council, officials at a block of flats have banned children from playing in paddling pools because they present a ‘fire risk’, yes you read that correctly a fire risk, the four inflatable pools were put up in a communal green space outside the flats in Cranham, near Romford Essex, they were filled with chlorinated water and each one was supervised by a parent, at night, three were emptied and the fourth had a secure cover to prevent anyone falling in, but officials at Homes in Havering, which manages the flats for Havering council said they had to go, the pools could stop access for fire engines! as one commenter wrote, 'if the fire brigade need to get somewhere they will get there, if that means shoving 3 illegally parked cars out the way or running over a couple of plastic kiddies paddling pools - they will do it, this type of rule is absolutely ridiculous,' but wait perhaps I am being unfair to the people that thought this one up at Homes in Havering, who want to stop the simple pleasures in life for local kids, lets ask a processional, enter Graham Hart, a senior officer at nearby Hornchurch fire station who said fire engines were rarely driven onto grassy areas and that the pools would ‘come in handy’, ‘I know the estate very well and I can see absolutely no access issues whatsoever,’ he added, so who do you believe, an over paid official at Homes in Havering or a processional fire fighter?