“The arrival of the American-style compensation culture is turning open spaces and public parks into dreary, fun-free, soulless places, the Government’s architecture and building advisers said yesterday. … The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) estimated that the cost to local authorities of bogus or excessive compensation claims was ?117 million a year,” enough to pay for an additional 3,900 park keepers, it estimates. The report “highlighted the removal of a swing from a playing field because it faced the sun and could blind children. Another regular occurrence, it said, was the removal of three-in-a-row swings because the outer swings could hit the one in the middle.” (Charles Clover, “Compensation culture ‘turns our parks into dreary, fun-free deserts'”, Daily Telegraph, Mar. 25)(related site).
U.K.: fear of three-in-row swings
“The arrival of the American-style compensation culture is turning open spaces and public parks into dreary, fun-free, soulless places, the Government’s architecture and building advisers said yesterday. … The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) estimated that the cost to local authorities of bogus or excessive compensation claims was ?117 million a year,” […]
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