A woman has spoken of how she was "gobsmacked" by a council's decision to reject plans for a Jubilee party on her street. Nicola Gask, 50, who lives on Tollerton Lane, Tollerton had applied through her parish councillor for a closure on Tollerton Lane between the Shell garage on the Melton Road A606 and Burnside Grove, to allow for a street party to mark the the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Many roads across the country are being closed for the huge celebration, and around 70 people had planned to come to the Tollerton Lane event. Ms Gask, who works as a online trading manager, said: "We applied for a road closure for part of the road sometime in April, I think. We don't really know a lot of people down the street, so I printed out these little paper invites and sent them around to the whole street and more than a quarter had come back and said 'what a great idea, it would be lovely to meet everybody, lets do it'.
"Our parish councillor had applied for us and the road closure we were asking for was for less than a quarter of a mile of it, where the majority of the people are. But they rejected it for strategic purposes.
