Tree Preservation in Quarry
From:
Julia Gasper
Date:
Apr 06 19:04 UTC
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I looked on the City Council Planning website today and could find no trace of
the application to drastically prune the grove of ash trees in Windmill Road. I
wonder what has happened to it? I did request that they put a Tree Preservation
Order on the whole lot. It would certainly be a tragedy to lose these beautiful
trees, one of our last links with the previous rural character of this area.
I am also wondering what has been decided about the sycamores at number
7, New Cross Road.
Looking through the planning records, I notice that since March 2007 eleven
sycamore trees have been cut down in a very small radius of Quarry, all with
the permission of the tree officer, Kevin Caldicott, who raised no objection.
Two were in Beaumont Road, where an ash was cut down at the same time. Two
sycamores were cut down at 60, Pitts, Road, and two more at 48, Pitts Road, in
April 2007. Then three more at 44 Pitts Road, and two at 42 Pitts Road. No
wonder that area looks so bare and denuded of any natural vegetation! In
September 2007 yet another sycamore was cut down at 1b Gladstone Road.
Further mature trees were cut down at the Six Bells pub within the last few
months. None of these trees were diseased or dangerous.
If this is not "random destruction" it is something worse, that is,
systematic destruction, steady and appalling. It seems that the tree officers
are doing nothing at all to oppose it. What do we pay them for?
It is essential that we save the last two sad and lonely sycamores that now
survive in New Cross Road.
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