Question, What Costs £300,000 To Build,

then 5 years later costs £48,000 to remove?

answer, the Civic Heart Arch, in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, deemed dangerous as clay tiles have been falling from the work of art, it is already fenced off from the public after pieces became loose,

but fixing it would have set Durham County Council back £282,000, currently £300 is being wasted every month on monitoring the artwork and keeping the public safe from the arch, the artist told the BBC's Today programme he was "devastated" by the decision, pity he did not offer to put his masterpiece back together again,


more than 94 per cent of locals who took part in a consultation about the arch were in favour of knocking it down, council leader Simon Henig said: 'in line with our promise to the public, now that we know their wishes, we will waste no time in taking action to remove the arch', it seems a shame that the council did not ask if the public wanted it in the first place.