Braces won't do says 20/20

Last week while I was away on business in Birmingham and then on to London for the Climate Change demo 20/20 put a letter trough the door. (On the demo Stella gave an interview to the BBC (!) in London, here is the article.) 20/20 don't like our structural engineers suggestion to use steel braces to secure the bay windows of 3 houses in my street. The bay windows are slowly peeling away from the houses, and could fall down. 20/20 want to demolish, and at best build plywood pretend bay windows. Our engineer says that it might be better and even safer for the workers to use braces instead of taking the structures apart, bit by bit. 20/20 does the work of the outsourced former department of 'estates' of the council.
Did they really consider our requests? What should we do? We'll have a meeting tomorrow at Eleanor's house and will discuss it.