Common sense prevailed, but why did it have to go the the High Court to find some common sense. The judge was very angry that the solution hadn't been accepted by the local authority 4 years ago.

Governmental organisations are not very adept at common sense and over-staffed government organisations are worse. To reduce the impact of inept meddling by officialdom in our activities simply reduce the staff and they won't have time to meddle and common sense will prevail.

Fundamentally we are too wealthy in the West and are spending our ill gotten gains on tripping ourselves up with unnecessary regulation and officialdom.