>The response to the FOI request said it cost £4,400 to plant the six trees in Edward Street with the rest of the money used to create a system underground to ensure they survive.
170k for digging up the street and putting the pipes in, along with monitoring… I don’t have any context for how far the pipes had to go or how much that should cost.
But I do think the title of the article is a little dishonest
E: I’ve completely come around after saw_boss’s comment, the infrastructure was only there for the trees!
>The response to the FOI request said it cost £4,400 to plant the six trees in Edward Street with the rest of the money used to create a system underground to ensure they survive.
1. Where do wild trees get the money to spend on this?
2. Fuck it, Save the £170k plant new trees if and when they die.
Whatever the source of the funds or how much was for digging up the road, 176k for 4 trees is disgusting.
Public money should be better spent. This councillor should be sacked immediately.
The “spend it or we’ll lose it” attitude throughout the public sector is a major problem in this country.
Absolutely winds me up this kind of thing.
Tssh, Boris Johnson could wallpaper an entire room with that kind of money…
Seems weird. London’s plane trees are stuck in gaps in the pavement and have survived since the era of pea-souper pollution fogs, and then the era of leaded petrol etc. IIRC Ealing had problems chopping some down as WW2 shrapnel was mangling the chipping machines.
Someone should have pulled the project as this seems to a case of reinforcing of failure.
Considering all the times tree law comes up on other subreddits, 174k isn’t that bad of a price.
Trees expensive yo
And here was me remembering when trees survived and even thrived with Rain water and the sun
Councillors should not be allowed to handle money.
There was another news story about another council that went bankrupt and had spent over £250k on plants for the council office.
Reading (also Labour) built a £4**million** “pretty” footbridge between existing bridges 100m up- and down-stream, also supposedly from grant money.
That’s more than a lifetime’s worth of council tax – how depressing
Corrupt councils are corrupt, nice big pile of money for some Councillor or MPs mate for a few hundred quids worth of work.
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>The response to the FOI request said it cost £4,400 to plant the six trees in Edward Street with the rest of the money used to create a system underground to ensure they survive.
170k for digging up the street and putting the pipes in, along with monitoring… I don’t have any context for how far the pipes had to go or how much that should cost.
But I do think the title of the article is a little dishonest
E: I’ve completely come around after saw_boss’s comment, the infrastructure was only there for the trees!
>The response to the FOI request said it cost £4,400 to plant the six trees in Edward Street with the rest of the money used to create a system underground to ensure they survive.
1. Where do wild trees get the money to spend on this?
2. Fuck it, Save the £170k plant new trees if and when they die.
Whatever the source of the funds or how much was for digging up the road, 176k for 4 trees is disgusting.
Public money should be better spent. This councillor should be sacked immediately.
The “spend it or we’ll lose it” attitude throughout the public sector is a major problem in this country.
Absolutely winds me up this kind of thing.
Tssh, Boris Johnson could wallpaper an entire room with that kind of money…
Seems weird. London’s plane trees are stuck in gaps in the pavement and have survived since the era of pea-souper pollution fogs, and then the era of leaded petrol etc. IIRC Ealing had problems chopping some down as WW2 shrapnel was mangling the chipping machines.
Someone should have pulled the project as this seems to a case of reinforcing of failure.
Considering all the times tree law comes up on other subreddits, 174k isn’t that bad of a price.
Trees expensive yo
And here was me remembering when trees survived and even thrived with Rain water and the sun
Councillors should not be allowed to handle money.
There was another news story about another council that went bankrupt and had spent over £250k on plants for the council office.
Reading (also Labour) built a £4**million** “pretty” footbridge between existing bridges 100m up- and down-stream, also supposedly from grant money.
That’s more than a lifetime’s worth of council tax – how depressing
Corrupt councils are corrupt, nice big pile of money for some Councillor or MPs mate for a few hundred quids worth of work.
Capital works are expensive