On the Line

At this time of an energy and climate emergency, it is surprising that ten million residents in Brtain are being denied the opportunity to help by a simple means.

This is to say that a condition in many leases forbids them to dry washing on the balcony. A simple way of drying clothes and other items for free. Not only do they smell fresher than if they have been tumbled, but there is no need for that expensive energy.

We need a national move to suspend this clause in leases which belongs to a vanished era.

Look at many a volume of old photographs and in fact people did not shy from airing their clean linen in public.