The application for relocation of the pineapples goes before the West Dorset Planning Committee on February 12.

There is a strong possibility that it will be refused, which will give Dorset County Council the ideal excuse to leave the pineapples at the park and ride gates, instead of honouring the promise to locate them to an equivalent place as their original position.

It would help if their could be a number of letters in support of the application. The more the merrier and the sooner the better.

Bill White, Councillor for Radipole, Weymouth & Portland Borough Council