Ice cream man fuming over plastic cow mascot has been banned for being too big
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Brit woman wakes up with awful 'plastic' forehead burn after falling asleep sunbathing Hughes said: ""People just love [the cow].
We were going to have a competition to name the cow, but one of our good friends passed away during lockdown, so we named it after her."Tracy the cow just makes people smile, even people who don't come into the shop, they stop by and take photographs."Hughes explained that the row began when a new pavement area was installed on the road, and new planters had been placed there."When we put the Tracy out on the very first day [after the installation], somebody complained there isn't enough distance between our furniture and where the council put the planters."The council then came straight round and said you have to move all your outside furniture, take all of it away, and that we had to reapply for a pavement license."Hughes did as he was told, moving the beloved cow off the pavement and reapplying for a pavement license, but to no avail."We reapplied and put the furniture out last Monday, but by the afternoon we'd had a message from the council saying that we needed photographic proof that there was 1.5m between the flowerbed and the furniture, and that we had to reapply again."Tracy still isn't allowed outside as the bureaucratic nightmare rages on, and Hughes says his business has suffered catastrophic losses as without Tracy and his signs, the shop looks closed from afar."People in the general area are all asking where the cow is.
They're not happy because it's a feature of West Kirby."The other thing is the work took three weeks and we weren't allowed anything, signs or Tracy, outside for three weeks, even on the hottest day of the year.
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