{"id":414426,"date":"2025-09-11T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414426\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:09:13","slug":"100-tree-saplings-die-after-residents-used-space-for-dog-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414426\/","title":{"rendered":"100 tree saplings die after residents used space for dog run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Local councillor William Graham said people were actually complaining about the so-called \u201cdog run\u201d not being maintained and he had to explain it wasn\u2019t actually a dedicated area for pets at all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He highlighted the loss of the trees at a council meeting, which he described as a \u201cwaste of money.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking at last week\u2019s operational performance and delivery scrutiny committee, he said: \u201cWe have had a tree planting exercise in the park where it was fenced off and gated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added: \u201cBut the fenced off area was actually getting used as a dog run more than protecting the saplings. What we had was over 100 saplings were planted and only three survived as it was getting used as a dog run.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tree saplings can be very delicate and susceptible to damage and the weather as their roots developing and vulnerable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Councillor Graham told the meeting how he had spoken to the counci\u2019s parks department and they agreed that \u201cwhere the saplings are being grown in overgrown areas that it will be left open as people will not walk their dogs in that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Explaining the latest situation with the park off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrheadnews.com\/local-news\/barrhead-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barrhead<\/a> Road, he said: \u201cThe fence has been removed completely in preparation for new planting. It is just something to be considered throughout the city. It was a total waste of money with the fencing getting put up and planting.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Councillor Graham added: \u201cI had folk coming to me saying it is an absolute disgrace for the council to put a dog run in there and it isn\u2019t being maintained. \u201cBut you actually have to tell them it isn\u2019t a dog run in the first place.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An official at the meeting confirmed she would take the feedback back to the relevant team within the council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The council is on a mission to plant 18 million trees in the wider city region alongside neighbouring local authorities within a decade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tree planting issues were\u00a0raised during a strategic plan update on the challenge to fight the climate emergency in a just transition to a net zero Glasgow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local councillor William Graham said people were actually complaining about the so-called \u201cdog run\u201d not being maintained and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-414426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115182761829352152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414426","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=414426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}