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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on Wednesday

Thanks Michael.

For years the council actually resisted pressure from the insurers and then for some reason caved in, accepting liability (?!).

Now that the insurers have finally accepted responsibility—and no thanks to the council—the council want to chop it down, risking groundwater heave.

Haringey Council have a poor record with healthy trees that for one reason or another, are under threat. They just don't want to try hard, despite big mature (proven) trees contribution to oxygenation being much more than unproven saplings the council plants in pavements.

The council boasts about its new tree programme, which reduces pavement width of pedestrians, but it dovetails with the needs of their developer-clients and their Highwaymen.

Haringey Council could be a better friend to nature in the Borough, but there is a chronic lack of sympathy for the environment in the leadership.

HCP: Stroud Green tree at centre of years-long campaign under threat of the chop – again

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter 12 hours ago

VIDEO of the healthy, mature tree, features overhead drone footage along Oakfield Road.

There is a lack of leadership on the environment. There is little-to-no effort made to save Veteran trees.

Despite municipal claims to consider residents' submissions, there is surely doubt about the sincerity of the council's "Duty to Consult" (N.B. a replacement tree will be planted. Even this claim is worth little).

If Haringey Council get away with this, more will be chopped.

Are the council not nature-thugs?

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