murder

[popleyoldcodger]

i saw today the murder of a good tree that was over 40years old not one thing wrong with it,,, except it was in the way of putting in a parking bay, now it has gone and all the finches that nested in it each year who ever sanctioned this not only a murderer of the tree but future generatin of finches and other birds that came to it. now we are even more exposed to the prison block they call regeneration. for them to look into our houses. intruders from outside, i wonder if i go round the house in my birthday suit will they put in a complaint?? could i say i did not ask you to live there or i was here first. but it is the nature that i am now worried about my garden was full of birds feeding in the winter months, and when they fed their young in summer i had plenty of food for them yes i use the word MURDER BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT IS AN ACTION THAT DID NOT HAVE TO BE TAKEN..

[popleyoldcodger]

well they have started one parking bay for one car only, i wonder would you all think a car more important than murdering a tree. it hhas seen many birds nesing in it over the years. it has sheltered them from the cold and wind yet fourty or fifty yards down the road they could have put in ten parking bays and not cut one tree down. from the start of the bulding project they have destroyed sorry murded some twentysix trees how can this be called moving forward and we belive in conservation, when they first started to put in the first three parking bays our of four i said to them you are not going to cut this tree down, it was agreed by the contractors/housing people on site that the tree will stay and reduce the bays to three what dam right lies they told that day these people would not like it very much if i took a chain saw to them and cut them down. ONE BAY FOR ONE CAR WHAT C--- THESE PEOPLE ARE

[Xtro]

(01-02-2010 06:02 PM)popleyoldcodger Wrote:  well they have started one parking bay for one car only, i wonder would you all think a car more important than murdering a tree. it hhas seen many birds nesing in it over the years. it has sheltered them from the cold and wind yet fourty or fifty yards down the road they could have put in ten parking bays and not cut one tree down. from the start of the bulding project they have destroyed sorry murded some twentysix trees how can this be called moving forward and we belive in conservation, when they first started to put in the first three parking bays our of four i said to them you are not going to cut this tree down, it was agreed by the contractors/housing people on site that the tree will stay and reduce the bays to three what dam right lies they told that day these people would not like it very much if i took a chain saw to them and cut them down. ONE BAY FOR ONE CAR WHAT C--- THESE PEOPLE ARE

What you describe is terrible, but sadly not a surprise. I also live on the Poets estate, but some distance from the new build, and I have to admit this so-called regeneration does look terrible - it looks more like an open prison. Contractors/housing people/councils give lip service to conservation but money talks in the end. Telling lies is in their DNA. They get away with it because most of us (and I include myself) are too apathetic to do anything about it, don't care or feel powerless. I assume you have contacted the council and/or councillors to complain and got nowhere.

Trying to be positive, perhaps not all is yet lost. Have you tried contacting the local press - perhaps some pressure there might shame the contactors into at least planting some semi-mature trees to replace those cut down, instead of those flimsy twigs they plant. Isn't there a local nature conservation group- have you contacted them - perhaps they can lobby for better conservation measures?

[non-stick]

I live in a conservation area, the council are next to blooming useless when it comes to looking after it. The rules seem to only apply to those that choose to comply. I've seen things done that have been allowed to stand cos the council does not have the balls to fight it.

[popleyoldcodger]

i agree with you all; i now wonder if they will cut the remaining tree down if i see so much as a tree chopper up the tree i will be under it with my scooter. they do not consider wild life ok they say they do but then turn a blind eye. if you remember all along the front of john hunt school they had trees and thick shubs, i contacted the council to find out if it was all staying the answer was the builders will only cut enough out to gain entrance to the site boy they must have had wide trucks as they took them all out. aprox 150 of them, they have put in low maintainace stuff and a few twigs they call trees. i have been in touch again now they have started to build again to stop them doing the same again, but all i have had back is they have put scafolding around the trees to be saved i have see some fencing laying against one tree so i think it will all be gone soon. when i talked to our local council member he went mad only because he was with me when the car parking spaces were talked about and the planting of the trees, i had the council member and the site achitect in my house and we went over all the planes it was he that said they would plat semi mature trees before the site opened, again this was not done just the revers murder then twigs put in. it is sad to see so much go on the estate but think it will not stop there.