Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Bye bye blossom as mass tree culling planned for Ladder
Following the last tree removal programme in the Ladder in 2008, Haringey Council have issued information about a new tree cull programme. 46 trees in total are due for the chop. Last time round Hewitt Road lost one of its two remaining cherry trees. This time they're back for the very last. Other roads will share similar fates.
Apparently the trees are either dead, diseased or have "outgrown their locations". But, worryingly, this time there's currently no statement about whether replacements will be planted. I'm awaiting a return of call from the officer responsible with an update on the situation.
Sadly, even when we get replacemeents, they tend to be more ornamental style trees. Here's what the Trees for Cities organisation has to say about that practice:
As the population of London continues to rise, space for people and trees is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Tree planting trends in recent years have shifted to smaller, shorter lived ornamental species. Whilst these trees still play a vital role in improving the city's environment, they are unable to provide the maximum benefits in climate regulation, air filtration and habitat that larger canopy trees provide. In addition the benefits of tree planting are at their highest when the trees reach maturity and so the longer a tree lives the more it has to contribute.
Below are the trees we're about to lose:
Allison Road
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Hewitt Road
Lothair Road North
Mattison Road
Pemberton Road
Raleigh Road
Seymour Road
Sydney Road
Tancred Road
Warham road
Woollaston Road
Wightman Road
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All enquiries to:
Clare Pappalardo, Senior Arboricultural & Allotments Officer, London Borough of Haringey, 020 8489 5774, clare.pappalardo@haringey.gov.uk
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Go on, John. Everyone else has had a go.
I'm immensely lucky. Although hardly anyone has asked for my opinion on Wards' Corner, lots of people have told me what it is.
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Yes, Pam, I sat on the Planning Committee on the first Wards Corner application and voted to allow the application.
But not based on my personal opinion of the application. Decisions by a Planning Committee to refuse an application must be based on material planning grounds - narrowly and legally defined. I've agreed several applications which I personally disliked. In a few cases I had a great deal of sympathy with objectors and felt that the applicants were being insensitive to their neighbours. Sometimes it was the other way round!
None of that mattered. Planning decisions are not about the committee's opinions. Or their personal likes or dislikes. It's a legal process.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Not all trees are right for the place they are planted so sometimes goodbye is the only option.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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There's another of the regular free events we organise throughout the borough taking place tomorrow, (in Muswell Hill at 10am). Chance to learn how to identify which tree is which. Once you know how to identify what type of tree it is, you begin to see these tall plants in a new light. I'm going to try to survey some of the trees in the two avenues we hope to walk along, recording height, width etc in the hope that the info will stick around.
There will be a Tree Warden event in the Ladder at some point, assuming that residents are happy it occurs, several seem keen.
A Tree Officer usually leads these walks, and some of the marvellous people at the Tree Trust for Haringey often accompany us, so there are plenty of experts, and a few tree huggers like me who can tell it is a tree, but not much else. Actually, aren't some bushes actually trees too?
Do come along - if you have a reasonably good digital camera and can take a photo or two we can use to build an online library, that'd be helpful. Complete beginners (like me) are welcome. Oh and do join our Facebook group.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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FYI The 120 year old cherry trees on my street (Cecile park N8) are all to be felled, every single one of them. They are going to be missed very much. The tree surgeon that wrote the report actually cried in the street. I'm depressed.
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Permalink Reply by SarahC on
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I'm shocked to hear that - I used to live in that street some years back and I remember the wonderful surprise of arriving home from holiday that first year and finding that while I was away the entire world had turned pink.
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