With the threat of a travellers’ transit site at Monk’s Brook removed, you might have supposed that the application to register the land as a village green had been quietly dropped. Indeed the leader of the City Council, Royston Smith did ask the applicant, Janet Ticehurst, to withdraw the application but she refused. Part of the land falls outside the City boundary and for this, Hampshire County Council is the registration authority.They seem to be somewhat keener to progress the application than is the City Council.