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 Christopher Fowler on
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True, John, you don't have to be rich or well educated, to have friends who are solicitors etc ... but it helps. And your experience shows that what I wrote about "disease" is true - just a cover story to get rid of trees under pressure from insurance companies.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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All it needed was access to e-mail and the Council website. No solicitors involved.
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Permalink Reply by cuckoo on
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How very sad! The beautiful cherry blossom was something which attracted me to the Ladder roads when I moved to my flat in the 1990s and I've been sorry to see their numbers decline. Surely with regular management (pruning, crowning etc) the trees can be kept to an appropriate size so they don't threaten the buildings? Is this definitely going ahead or can anything still be done?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I guess nothing's over till the fact lady sings. Lobby your councillors.
Gina Adamou - gina.adamou@haringey.gov.uk
Karen Alexander - karen.alexander2@haringey.gov.uk
David Schmitz - david.schmitz@haringey.gov.uk
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Permalink Reply by caterina on
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We had a beautiful tree taken down in lausanne road but it was replaced and is doing really well. It had blossoms this year
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I think it would be more sensible to trim the trees rather than chopping them down. Can we organise a campaign to stop this from happening?
It really makes a huge difference to have a strret with beautiful trees - and indeed more hedges. We need more trees, not less.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Here in Page Green we had a dozen new trees installed a couple of years ago, it turned out to be on GLA money. They were nearly all cherry trees, and are now able to blossom in their baby way. However an old tree which was felled because it was dying has not been replaced, back to LBH budget - I must write and ask what's happening there. Trees cost a tenner to buy in bulk, it's the labour that costs.
The problem with trimming trees to keep them small (and their roots repressed) is that pruning promotes growth. So it's at least a 2-yearly task.
The only new trees put in now by LBH are from a very short list - hawthorn, flowering cherry, mountain ash and birch. They all stay fairly small and live 30 to 50 years if that. I lament that in another 100 years as the planes and oaks planted by visionary Victorians start to die off, there will be huge gaps. Who is planting now for 2112? What happens in the parks, do they put in new bigger trees there?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I'm curious, Hugh. Have you had a response to your inquiry? Has anyone spoken directly to Clare Pappalardo? Or to anyone more senior in the Parks Service? If so, with what response?
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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I called yesterday and today and she's been out on visits. I spoke to another very helpful chap this morning who explained to me that the tree replacement budget has been badly affected by the cuts. He also explained that although, cuts permitting, the tree policy has long been to replace trees, that might mean replacement in years rather than in months.
I was also guided towards Alex Fraser (also suggested by Peter below), but he's on leave today.
So, yes, I'm trying Alan.
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Hugh - so they say the tree replacement budget is affected by cuts. Would those be the cuts to the budget, or the cuts that chop down the trees that were there in the first place? Apparently there is plenty in the budget to chop trees down, just none to replace them.
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