What indeed?
The answer is, of course, I don't know.
I mean, on the face of it there is a perfectly good fence, not on a roadway or pathway, but, sort of, round a corner, being taken apart.
Here are a couple more photos 2 days later.
If I was to hazard a guess as to what was going on, I would say that Sandwell are creating yet another piece of 'woven topped' fencing. If this is the case, it is, by my count, the eighth such in the last 3 years. All of the former fences have been, to a greater or lesser extent, taken apart by passers by, including the one completed only last week which, I note, already has a piece neatly cut out of it.
The idea is that Sandwell first of all takes down perfectly good fencing; then chops the top 6 or 8 feet off mature hedgerows and trees that are growing behind said fence; and finally gets some sub-contractor to hammer in a row of wooden stakes and plait some willowy type material along the top of the stakes, having first 'layered' what's left of the original hedgerows.
The result is, in the immediate short term, an obviously man-made intrusion into natural surroundings, and in the longer term, a mess of partly demolished fencing, and no hedgerows at all.
I will keep an eye on progress, if that is the word, and report later on the outcome of the current works.
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