Union flag banned over health and safety

By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 8:28PM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

The flagpole atop Colchester precinct council"s Rowan House bureau retard has remained unclothed given the construction was purchased from Anglian Water dual years ago.

A undone Conservative statesman was so endangered that he presented a Union dwindle to the council"s Liberal Democrat care and offering to stand the roof tiles tiles himself to have certain it was flown.

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A legislature mouthpiece pronounced the deficiency of a dwindle was a "logistical operational matter" and insisted the building, Rowan House, had an surprising roof tiles tiles that done it formidable to entrance the flagpole.

Will Quince, the Conservative impending parliamentary claimant for Colchester, said: "I cannot hold that a flagpole was put on tip of this construction that is inaccessible. This seems to be comprehensive health and reserve nonsense.

"I"m happy to go up there and put it up myself.

"I"m incredibly unapproachable to be British and it pleases me severely when I travel around the locale to see most people who proudly arrangement the Union flag. I think it"s unequivocally unhappy we can"t fly it for health and reserve reasons."

Anne Turrell, the Liberal Democrat legislature personality who perceived Mr Quince"s 6ft by 4ft flag, said: "Health and reserve won"t concede us to do it, unless we skeleton the building.

"That costs thousands of pounds and I"m certain the taxpayers of Colchester wouldn"t wish us to outlay that to put a dwindle up."

A legislature mouthpiece said: "It is a really bizarre made construction with triangular roofs, and there are no entrance points.

"It is a logistical operational make a difference and recommendation has been taken from the health and reserve adviser. We continually have flags on the locale hall, that is a really distinguished construction only half a mile afar from Rowan House."

She was incompetent to endorse either the legislature had looked in to utilizing pick methods to raise the Union flag, such as deploying a cherry picker or steeplejack.

In 2004, councillors in Trowbridge were told that a Cross of Saint George could not be flown on the locale gymnasium since scaffolding would be as well costly and disposition out of a first-floor window was as well dangerous.

In May last year officials at South Kesteven district legislature primarily claimed that identical health and reserve risks meant a Union dwindle could not fly on the locale gymnasium at Bourne, Lincolnshire, for Armed Forces Day. They relented when a peaked blockade next the flagpole, that was the means of the reserve concerns, was boxed in to equivocate any risk to hold up or limb.