Sidewalk cafes have graced the pavements of Europe for centuries. Recently they have ventured onto Wellington streets. Vans selling coffee and icecream have also found a niche on the waterfront and beside office buildings. The owners pay a fee to the Council for the privilege. The Council offsets expenses, the owner makes a profit, the consumer enjoys the service. Happiness all round.
With the event of apartments in the CBD balconies cover the heads of passersby. The owners obviously think when they buy, the semblance of indoor/outdoor flow is worth the annual fee they will be obliged to pay the Council. Another win/win situation.
Snippets of land left over from a surveyor's calculations, or kept because a road widening never happens, or fall in to council hands who knows why also become encroachments. Adjacent landowners build garages over them, plant flowers and shrubs on them and build ornamental walls to contain them. Ah thinks the Council, they should pay too. But should they? Perhaps you will find out in the next episode.
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