There has been a great deal of media interest in the last 18 months over the programmes of urban tree felling initiated by some Local Authorities, with experts, campaigners and people on all sides of the debate arguing hard for and against felling the trees in those areas.
Many healthy and trouble-free trees were felled for no apparently good reason and all the fantastic benefits of having trees in urban environments have been lost.
The narrative in the media is often pretty blunt, with none of the nuance that tells the real story of why a tree had to come down. In these modern times, we seem to prefer a simple argument.
And though we would never defend wholesale felling of healthy trees, and we operate by the value of doing as little intervention as we can, there are sometimes very good reasons – and often a number of varied factors are at play – as to why a tree will have to be heavily pruned or to come down.
This is to say nothing of the customer’s entitlement to manage their trees as they see fit and do what they like with their own trees in law (unless they are protected by Preservation Order or other planning condition such as being in a Conservation Area). Indeed there is a requirement known as a Duty of Care on land owners to manage trees which could harm others.
Here’s a Horse Chestnut we saw recently that has been limping along for a little while under the very well meant care of its owner, but the split continued to lengthen and deepen, and was finally so serious that the tree was taken down before it caused any harm.
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