Post in Tree Preservation in Quarry

Mar 17 12:23 UTC

Thank you very much, Stephanie, for that informative message.
I have scanned the planning applications and can't so far find any reference to
the tree in the sports field. But I am dismayed about the casual way that the
City Council is handing out permission to cut down or greatly reduce trees all
tghe time.
 So far from being "protected" because they are in a conservation area, large
numbers of native broad-leaved trees are being cut down at random for no good
reason, and nobne are being planted.
   I discovered that there is an application for greatly reducing the height of
a clump of beautiful trees at 16A Trinity Road which is just around the corner
from me and in view of my garden.
PLEASE EVERYONE WRITE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND PROTEST.
 It is outrageous. Permission should certainly not be given for any of the
proposals now pending to cut down native broad-leaved trees in Quarry.  Not all
of Quarry is a conservation area, and it makes no difference in practice
whether it is or not. We have lost a lot of trees through the insensitive
development in Spring Lane, and we definitely need those which are left.
  Last year they gave permission to cut down four or five beautiful cherry
trees,  several beeches and a large sycamore. The random hacking of the tree in
School Place was done without any permisison at all.
  PS I am not opposed to trimming or removing large conifers which are not
native trees and can grow far larger than people intended when they put them in
their gardens. But we need the native trees to create oxygen and give some
character to the landscape.