{"id":177346,"date":"2025-06-12T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177346\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:23:12","slug":"winchester-residents-angry-as-a-large-tree-gets-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177346\/","title":{"rendered":"Winchester residents &#8216;angry&#8217; as a large tree gets protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sandra Steel lives in a home on the adjacent St Swithun Street and spoke for residents at the planning meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The spreading roots cause structural damage,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adding that &#8220;our historic houses are particularly vulnerable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the properties on the road date back to the 17th Century and Ms Steel said there was evidence of &#8220;cracks in garden walls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that it was increasing the insurance of the local houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite these claims the council approved the protection order and said further evidence would need to be provided to consider the felling of the tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On hearing that verdict, Ms Steel said: &#8220;You are waiting for our houses to fall down I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after the meeting she said they all &#8220;feel extremely angry&#8221; and called it &#8220;quite ridiculous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;An oak tree belongs an open area or a forest, not in gardens of historic houses,&#8221; Ms Steel added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Sandra Steel lives in a home on the adjacent St Swithun Street and spoke for residents at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-177346","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\/114668254787847590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177346","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=177346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}