Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Last ditch attempt to save the famous Oakfield Plane Tree - please feedback on consultation now
Tags for Forum Posts: feedback on consultation, haringey council, public consultation, save nature, stop the chop, street trees, threats to nature, tree chopping
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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ChatGPT (or as I heard today, the more-easily pronounced Chatty-Jeep) provided at my request a handy graphic for dissemination ~
AT the local council there are pockets of understanding of the value of street trees. Unfortunately however, there is little support for the environment from the leadership.
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Permalink Reply by Giovanna iozzi
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REMINDER
FINAL FEW DAYS to ask people to make an objection to Haringey's plane to fell the Oakfield Plane tree. By Tuesday 17 June.
THANK YOU
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris
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This matter cannot be reduced to some kind of verdict on whether trees or houses are the more important. Also it is not a debate about large trees versus saplings. All trees start out as saplings. We need as many trees as possible in our streets but they must be of suitable potential size and sensibly located. Trees come in a vast range of shapes and sizes. Individual trees, once planted, do not have some kind of right to exist, we plant them here to serve the interests of the city's residents which as Clive says are many and considerable. Avoidable maintenance costs are also a consideration.
I have responded to the official consultation accordingly.
By way of further information, the following photo shows a plane tree which stands on Ducketts Common near the fence along Willoughby Road. It has clearly been pruned at some stage to force it to spread at about 10 feet from the ground. It is nonetheless a very substantial tree. The second photo is of a trench that happened to be open when I was passing. It shows underground cables of various kinds that are to be found under most of our footways. The tree is out of frame to the left but some heavy brown roots can be seen crossing towards the road. We don't often get to see the size of roots that a large tree can send out and I must admit, I found this one pretty impressive. The trench was probably dug to repair damage done to the cables. In that street there are no houses along that side and the roots probably don't reach all the way across to where they do stand. It is however obvious that if that tree was in the footway next to a house, the foundations would not just be tickled.
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IT seems that most utility cables are buried under pavements rather than under carriageways.
If this is the case, then it would seem to be another good reason for the council to plant their sapling trees in Build-Outs from the kerb, rather than parked in pedestrians' pavements.
Due to a combination of short-sightedness and the lack of joined-up-policy, the council may be storing up problems for the future. The incumbents will be long gone before this becomes another mistake to undo.
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