I don't think that people who oppose Piplings are child-hating monsters or anything similar.

I just support Piplings because it's excellent ("Outstanding" according to OFSTED), and because it's unobstrusive and well-run. And because, although the fears about traffic, litter, noise etc, may have been justified before the nursery opened, the actuality has turned out not to be the case. OK I don't live next door, but I do live close enough to know the true situation.

However what might have been settled by neighbourly negotiation, facilitated by TLERA, has turned into a battle, and looks like ending in tragedy. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the legal case (and I still think that it was a mistake getting lawyers involved), there are very young children who are possibly going to be parted from their friends and their carers at a vulnerable stage of their development.

I support TLERA and its committee, but sometimes people have to be big enough to say "maybe we got it wrong - how can we put it right?". Probably too late for that now.