“Council contractors felled 110 trees in Plymouth city centre before an injunction forced them to stop.
The city council said it was taking legal advice and felling was abandoned at about 01:00 GMT.
Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham tweeted that the felling was “despicable vandalism”.
The felling is part of a regeneration plan for the city centre which will mean the planting of 169 new trees, said the local authority.”
MEANWHILE:
“Over half a million trees set to be planted in our towns, cities and countryside.
Almost 680,000 trees will be planted in towns, cities and rural areas to increase access to nature and boost health and wellbeing.”
“Leader Richard Bingley used powers that allowed him to bypass the usual scrutiny of fellow councillors, arguing a decision was urgent ahead of local elections and the bird nesting season.”
Translation: Leader Richard Bingley (of the Conservative Party) pushed to have his way before he loses the power to wreak this havoc!
“Leader Richard Bingley used powers that allowed him to bypass the usual scrutiny of fellow councillors, arguing a decision was urgent ahead of local elections and the bird nesting season”
In completely unrelated news, the contractors R.Bingley and Co have announced record profits!
It’s been due a refresh for ages. Walls and paving is knackered in plenty of places too.
we really got to keep an eye on the twits in local government….
Several councils have done or doing this, Sheffield being the most well known example. Those old trees cannot realistically be replaced by saplings, simply because it will take decades for those saplings to come close to replacing the felled trees. This is in terms of both carbon capture and the habitats they provide to wildlife. There also seems to be little support from locals for such schemes too, which is why last minute injunctions such as this are required in the first place. Councils don’t want to publicly discuss this sort of policy because they know it will cause a huge backlash.
It’s some fucking trees, who cares? The redevelopment will be good and they’re even going to plant new trees to replace them. I swear British people go insane as soon as they see a tree
Plymouth town centre was currently a seriously depressing place to be…until 2 days ago…now they’re just taking the piss. Doing it in the dead of night to sneak it through when locals are in bed. Fuck Richard Bingley and fuck the Tory party destroying our national seurity.
Amazing how quickly the Council got a workforce together after the go ahead was given, pity they couldn’t finish off all the other City Centre improvements first but then I suppose birds would have started nesting, and all the students and street drinkers would have made merry in the urban wilderness they are aiming to regenerate and which would have delayed proceedings. Two thirds majority against this environmental vandalism taking place, yet the Council, or certain members of it, have their agenda and will force it through no matter what. The trees weren’t dead or dying but were just in the way of yet another in a long list of half baked improvement schemes that get started every few years. The City Centre envisaged in the Abercrombie Plan after WW2 May well have needed modernisation but successive Councils, both Labour and Conservative, have seemingly been more destructive in the attempt to improve matters. We didn’t need healthy trees removing to be replaced with other ‘semi mature’ specimens, we didn’t need the water feature replaced with ‘dancing fountains’ . What we needed was for the Council to tidy the place up and finish the work that they’d already messed around with for long enough. Too many empty shops, student flats everywhere, homelessness, potholes, rubbish, unfinished projects, all sorts the Council could apply themselves to sorting out if they could muster up the same energy, finances and workforce that magically appeared without notice on Tuesday night. Plymouth City Centre certainly is a very depressing place to be at present!
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From BBC link:
“Council contractors felled 110 trees in Plymouth city centre before an injunction forced them to stop.
The city council said it was taking legal advice and felling was abandoned at about 01:00 GMT.
Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham tweeted that the felling was “despicable vandalism”.
The felling is part of a regeneration plan for the city centre which will mean the planting of 169 new trees, said the local authority.”
MEANWHILE:
“Over half a million trees set to be planted in our towns, cities and countryside.
Almost 680,000 trees will be planted in towns, cities and rural areas to increase access to nature and boost health and wellbeing.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-half-a-million-trees-set-to-be-planted-in-our-towns-cities-and-countryside
“Leader Richard Bingley used powers that allowed him to bypass the usual scrutiny of fellow councillors, arguing a decision was urgent ahead of local elections and the bird nesting season.”
Translation: Leader Richard Bingley (of the Conservative Party) pushed to have his way before he loses the power to wreak this havoc!
“Leader Richard Bingley used powers that allowed him to bypass the usual scrutiny of fellow councillors, arguing a decision was urgent ahead of local elections and the bird nesting season”
In completely unrelated news, the contractors R.Bingley and Co have announced record profits!
It’s been due a refresh for ages. Walls and paving is knackered in plenty of places too.
we really got to keep an eye on the twits in local government….
Several councils have done or doing this, Sheffield being the most well known example. Those old trees cannot realistically be replaced by saplings, simply because it will take decades for those saplings to come close to replacing the felled trees. This is in terms of both carbon capture and the habitats they provide to wildlife. There also seems to be little support from locals for such schemes too, which is why last minute injunctions such as this are required in the first place. Councils don’t want to publicly discuss this sort of policy because they know it will cause a huge backlash.
It’s some fucking trees, who cares? The redevelopment will be good and they’re even going to plant new trees to replace them. I swear British people go insane as soon as they see a tree
Plymouth town centre was currently a seriously depressing place to be…until 2 days ago…now they’re just taking the piss. Doing it in the dead of night to sneak it through when locals are in bed. Fuck Richard Bingley and fuck the Tory party destroying our national seurity.
Amazing how quickly the Council got a workforce together after the go ahead was given, pity they couldn’t finish off all the other City Centre improvements first but then I suppose birds would have started nesting, and all the students and street drinkers would have made merry in the urban wilderness they are aiming to regenerate and which would have delayed proceedings. Two thirds majority against this environmental vandalism taking place, yet the Council, or certain members of it, have their agenda and will force it through no matter what. The trees weren’t dead or dying but were just in the way of yet another in a long list of half baked improvement schemes that get started every few years. The City Centre envisaged in the Abercrombie Plan after WW2 May well have needed modernisation but successive Councils, both Labour and Conservative, have seemingly been more destructive in the attempt to improve matters. We didn’t need healthy trees removing to be replaced with other ‘semi mature’ specimens, we didn’t need the water feature replaced with ‘dancing fountains’ . What we needed was for the Council to tidy the place up and finish the work that they’d already messed around with for long enough. Too many empty shops, student flats everywhere, homelessness, potholes, rubbish, unfinished projects, all sorts the Council could apply themselves to sorting out if they could muster up the same energy, finances and workforce that magically appeared without notice on Tuesday night. Plymouth City Centre certainly is a very depressing place to be at present!