Anyway Alan, you must be a bit Polish. Polish surnames end in "a" if its a woman and an "i" if it's a man. Once I had my surname misspelt as Brainsky. I will not repeat what my initial reaction was, but the error was soon corrected.I suppose most of us north Europeans are intermingled. North Europeans , including Northern France Normans, Belgians, Dutch, Northern Germans, Scands, and so on do look very similar. Poles only are identifiable in Ealing by, if they are girls, being slim, and if boys, by calling loudly to each other in some pagan tongue!Certainly my family for the last 200-250 years are English or Welsh. My wife may have Baltic relations as an ancestor was called Stani(s)land, or similar, from Humberside.Question Barbara: what happens to a Conservation Area when the buildings become time expired. Surely they can't go on for ever, can they? Does it mean council grants will be available to keep them in their pristine 200 year old as-conserved condition? Should the act of designation include the introduction of contemporaneous (no, I didn't need a spell-checker!) lamp-posts which will illuminate the highways past these monuments of dubious taste or architectural merit so they can be seen by those of a crepuscular or nocturnal nature.Perhaps even benches securely nailed to the pavement so people can sit and marvel, much as they do in art galleries, which also house items of dubious taste or artistic merit.Of course the above would be done simultaneously with pavement improvements, road surfacing, and introduction of a CPZ.A nice touch would be flashing LED attached to lamp-posts warning, sorry, telling people they were in a Conservation Area, then those individuals could marvel at what the council had done. After all most people are unaware whether they are in a conservation area, although the suggested footway and road improvements may hint at it.PS how about giving freshly resurfaced roads conservation status? They are pretty unique in themselves!!!
Alan Brainsby ● 6962d