Pedestrians in Winchester city centre are not strangers to navigating around blockages on the pavements. 

But these tables on Jewry Street take the biscuit, reducing the width of the busy thoroughfare outside two restaurants to just three feet. 

Why is this allowed?

Stephen Percy,
Easton,
Winchester

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