{"id":70171,"date":"2025-05-03T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70171\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T04:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:01:11","slug":"tree-posing-imminent-danger-at-clifton-high-school-chopped-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70171\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree posing &#8216;imminent danger&#8217; at Clifton High School chopped down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specialist contractors were called in<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_LC_240425danger_01jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The tree has been chopped and removed<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A tree posing an &#8216;imminent danger&#8217; has been urgently removed from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/clifton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Clifton<\/a> High School after it snapped in a high-use area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The incident prompted an immediate response from Branch Walkers Tree Services Ltd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a letter addressed to Mark Hemmings of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bristol-city-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol City Council<\/a>, the firm confirmed the purple cherry plum had snapped and was considered hazardous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOn arrival we found that a tree had indeed snapped out and was an imminent danger so it was removed,\u201d wrote Richard Harrison of Branch Walkers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The tree, situated on the school\u2019s College Road site in Clifton, had failed in an area regularly used by students and staff, raising concerns for public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The removal was carried out swiftly, with photographic evidence reportedly submitted to council officers for the record.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_LC_240425danger_00jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The tree has been chopped and removed<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While the document did not specify the exact cause of the failure, the use of the phrase \u201cimminent danger\u201d suggests the structural integrity of the tree had been significantly compromised, necessitating urgent action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">There is no indication from the correspondence that the removal faced any objections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The school has expressed a positive outlook regarding replanting efforts. According to the letter, \u201cThe school are more than willing to replant in the next planting season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">This removal was conducted under a five-day notice, a common procedure allowing for the removal of potentially dangerous trees without the need for a full planning application, provided certain criteria are met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist contractors were called inThe tree has been chopped and removed A tree posing an &#8216;imminent danger&#8217; has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,3893,748,18959,2266,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-70171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-clifton","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114441912075558728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70171","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=70171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}