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Trees Fairland's Park being killed/removed

Two healthy cherry trees were recently cut down in Fairland's park, and I see today that the chainsaws are out again and that further cherry trees have been severely pruned, possibly to the point where they will die. 

I find this extremely frustrating and also depressing, especially because these trees are / were once home to numerous birds and insects and they also protected the children's playing area from the excessive and dangerous local air pollution. 

Does anyone know if the council have any intention of replacing the two trees they removed? And can anyone tell me who to contact at the council regarding this? 

Photos of stumps and also pruning in action today. 

With thanks and best wishes, 

Alice 

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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on June 6, 2019 at 10:34

Alice. it is fine here for a few weeks but you may need to look after it if we go away. I will message you.

Permalink Reply by JJ B on May 31, 2019 at 14:16

In early March we had quite a lovely, mature, ornamental-pear street-tree in Loxwood road. It looked perfectly healthy but just snapped clean at the base in blustery winds that weren't that strong. Luckily, no one was below it at the time. Usually there are at least two cars parked there too!

So I quite understand the council which has quite an active street planting programme too!

Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on June 4, 2019 at 14:30

Interestingly I spotted a new tree the council planned on Pemberton (must have been a recent addition as I have not seen it before). It looked close to death to I took some water to to water it, no idea if it will survive.

Why they insist on planting at this time of year is beyond me. I saw Nick G-Ts post about the new trees on Wightman becoming water stressed. I will have to write to the council to try to persuade them to hold off until September before they plant any more as planting and hoping it will wet but not be hot is not a strategy!

Permalink Reply by Alice Mezzo on June 6, 2019 at 10:36

I think this is part of a wider problem of the council not planning for after-care of plants/trees after planting. eg when a while ago, they planted a large number of climbers, such as clemantis, at the bottom of Allison road, no one watered them and they died. That was an expensive waste of time. I wonder if there is a plant/tree expert in charge, or if they just treat trees plants like cement objects!

Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on June 6, 2019 at 12:03

There are people nominally in charge, whether they take responsibility is another issues. I have a 15+ year old tree in Pem that has a problem, it is clinging on for deal life but could be gone soon. I have tried to contact the relevant officers multiple times and had zero response. The last message I copied Zena in in the hope they may pay attention, but no. I think I may have to take Zena's precious time and ask her to force the issue with them directly! I know they are under resourced, but come on.

The council is cutting its tree planting budget but you would think they would come up with a methodology as you say Alice that sees those planted planted at the appropriate time and effort put into keeping them alive, I would rather 3 tree planted and alive after 5 years than 10 dead in 2!

I would be interested to see if trees alive after 5 years is one of this teams KPIs?

It would be really easy to identify someone in a particular street to look look after a recently planted tree, there are plenty of folks proactive enough to take on such a task, but do you ever hear of residents being contacted? It would be really easy to have a low level and informal tree network that the council ping every couple of months asking for volunteers or with an update. I certainly would not begrudge that.

Permalink Reply by Peter Corley on June 6, 2019 at 12:53

The Council has cut its tree planting budget to ZERO, been zero the last two years. the only money for trees has come from Sadiq Khan's fund, and that is for trees in parks, not street trees.., the council would be grateful if people sponsored a tree to be planted in their street, I think it's £250, not too bad if all the neighbours chip in..

Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on June 6, 2019 at 21:36

I also understood that the budget was zero, however trees were planted last season in Cranley Gardens and Farrer Road.

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