{"id":156794,"date":"2025-06-04T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156794\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:33:08","slug":"stroud-green-plane-tree-faces-axe-again-over-root-damage-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156794\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroud Green plane tree faces axe again over root damage claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its consultation, the council said the tree had &#8220;contributed to tree root damage to the adjacent properties, pruning was unsuccessful, and movement of the properties has continued&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But environmental campaign group Haringey Tree Protectors told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> these claims were unsubstantiated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has urged people to send in their views so the council can &#8220;understand how the public feel about protecting their mature street trees&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Iozzi said poor foundations, clay soil movement, droughts or floods could also be contributing to issues with the homes&#8217; foundations and she believed there was not enough evidence to support the tree&#8217;s removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trees should not be felled just in case there is the potential of damage to houses in the future,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If this logic is followed, all trees in Haringey would need to be felled just in case.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its consultation, the council said the tree had &#8220;contributed to tree root damage to the adjacent properties,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114623703297502877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}