Vandals. 600 year old tree that can live past 1500 felled for some shitty new build that won’t last 150.
> A spokesman said a range of alternative options had been looked at, including root barriers and extensive pruning, but they “were not accepted by the insurance company as a feasible solution”.
Pretty sad that it all seems to come down to insurance company money.
Would love to know more details about how it was causing damage and why houses were allowed to be built close enough in the first place.
Be interesting to find out of part of the original development plan included preserving this tree and if the building work had to carried out around it. If so it could be a worrying precedent for some of the estates round our way that have nice old trees in them.
We destroyed a unique DaVinci notebook but will donate 100 paperbacks to local libraries across the city this autumn in a bid to “mitigate” the impact.
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Irony is they claim to be building the greenest UK city as you drive into it, past a new housing development (great Haddon or something) where they’ve also chopped a load of trees down
Once these trees are gone they are gone forever. Or just plant one and wait 600 years. Humans might not even be around in 600 years time.
Saplings won’t replace the carbon capture potential of that tree, not even a grove of them will do so for decades to come. That should be considered above all when climate change is happening now. Plants, especially ancient trees like this, are the real carbon capture technology we should be encouraging, not man-made alternatives. As much as possible needs to be done to preserve trees such as this.
This tree existed before the invention of the printing press, before Modern English existed. When we still thought the Sun revolved around the Earth. Before the discovery of America and Australia. It has seen countless powers rise and fall. This isn’t just vandalism, its a analogous to the destruction of a priceless historical monument. Heartbreaking and enraging.
Used to live in a house with an oak tree about that size in the garden, at least as close to our house as those homes. No problems whatsoever.
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Vandals. 600 year old tree that can live past 1500 felled for some shitty new build that won’t last 150.
> A spokesman said a range of alternative options had been looked at, including root barriers and extensive pruning, but they “were not accepted by the insurance company as a feasible solution”.
Pretty sad that it all seems to come down to insurance company money.
Would love to know more details about how it was causing damage and why houses were allowed to be built close enough in the first place.
Be interesting to find out of part of the original development plan included preserving this tree and if the building work had to carried out around it. If so it could be a worrying precedent for some of the estates round our way that have nice old trees in them.
We destroyed a unique DaVinci notebook but will donate 100 paperbacks to local libraries across the city this autumn in a bid to “mitigate” the impact.
Local Councils working for you and your community in action.
Irony is they claim to be building the greenest UK city as you drive into it, past a new housing development (great Haddon or something) where they’ve also chopped a load of trees down
Once these trees are gone they are gone forever. Or just plant one and wait 600 years. Humans might not even be around in 600 years time.
Saplings won’t replace the carbon capture potential of that tree, not even a grove of them will do so for decades to come. That should be considered above all when climate change is happening now. Plants, especially ancient trees like this, are the real carbon capture technology we should be encouraging, not man-made alternatives. As much as possible needs to be done to preserve trees such as this.
This tree existed before the invention of the printing press, before Modern English existed. When we still thought the Sun revolved around the Earth. Before the discovery of America and Australia. It has seen countless powers rise and fall. This isn’t just vandalism, its a analogous to the destruction of a priceless historical monument. Heartbreaking and enraging.
Used to live in a house with an oak tree about that size in the garden, at least as close to our house as those homes. No problems whatsoever.