How's this for a complete waste of time and money?

Today someone came along to the new lamppost outside my house, chopped about a metre off the top, then reinstalled the light. Apparently "the client" has changed the brief and all existing lights are now too tall and need to be lowered.

Don't know whether this is due to the lack of light, trees in the way or something else, but it seems a bit late to be changing the brief this far in to a project, with public money!