Christmas lights

A couple of ideas for the New Year

Are our lights boring. They are fine around the green and the Fox and Pelican but then there are no lights apart from the tree in the square. How about having some coloured lights extending along the Headley Road covering the shops. Surely the shops or the village could raise the amount needed with suppport from EHDC.
Compared to Beacon Hill we are a poor second and most of the shops there look as though they are on their last legs.

Secondly what about a Basketball net in the park or could Grayshott School be persuaded to open up and serve the community.
Clearly this would be popular with young people.

Just a couple of thoughts to provoke debate and action !

Hi Anon@81.132

Merry Christmas to every body and a Happy new year to boot.

Ok Lights in Grayshott has been a 'one of them' problems. Since time began and Grayshott was formed it has been a battle to get 'ALL' the shops and offices to have lights adoring the fronts of the premises. Shameful I hear you cry, yes, but true none the less. So as with all things, after a few decades of I do not want them on my shop front and I'm not paying for his/her lights. In them day a string was run over say rainbow to the video shop, with power coming from one owner. NOT always a good thing but a cost effective way out.

Well now in 2000 and the LAW now is against us with every shop needing to have power and to have tests for that power, (so I have been told, is this correct?) Other wise it would have been done. ALSO when the great debate of the lights in the park OR in front of the shops happened, a vote was held and that vote was for trees to be lit with the shops being lit a year or two later. Ummmmmmm . Anyway's its just how it is and I hope it might change.
Grayshott has ALSO done the 'string' the lights across the road and if you look at where it can be done easily and safely you will see that the lights cannot be hung HIGH enough. As we found out that year, all was fine till evening and when the lights were turned on, you could see where a HIGH lorry/ bus had driven down the road, a 5-6 foot wide gap in the lights was visible, because they had been broken by that lorry/bus. And so they were taken down and not put up again.

NO BALL GAMES are allowed in the parks.
What about insurance for damages to property as well as for the kids who would no doubt get a knock or 2 ?
Is basket ball that popular?
What about an Ice rink? or an indoor football pitch/bowls?