Many of you may remember a year ago on Good Friday, a bunch of morons with chainsaws decimated the orchard and wood next door, taking down 150 year old trees, basically anything without a TPO and some with. In October we were asked for comments on a preplan for 49 houses for a housing association. The November 5th meeting had 80 people and a lot of fireworks. Four weeks ago, under the cover of Covid 19 and everyone in lockdown, they have gone for full planning on 45 houses. The council offices are closed, many affected people are elderly and not computer literate, and we cannot hold meetings. Apparently yesterday they have now applied to take down some more of the trees with TPO's on, including crown reduction (read that as chopping in half according to the tree surgeon lined up for the job)of a row of 23 lime trees that are 150 years old. This is likely to kill them. By yesterday, we had 100 objections in to the proposed plan of 49 houses(basically wall to wall concrete), despite only 3 notices being posted on lamp posts and only people sharing a boundary with the site getting an official letter. Today we have to start again to object to the destruction of more trees.
I take it those are old photos and work isn't being carried out at the moment? It makes you wonder at the point of all these government tree planting targets if they're just allowing entire mature woods to be chopped down everywhere for development.
My afternoon grump is plant tea bags again. Another plant that's been doing less well than it should has turned out have choked roots. I don't know how I missed it the first time but after a year in the soil the tea bag is still intact and no roots have grown through it apart from where there were some small tears.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Has anyone got a phone number for swampy?  With our local planning dept being either incompetent or in league with the developer, we may have to go for direct action in the form of human chains across the entrances, (fully social distancing of course)
The photos were taken Easter 2019. Then they sent another bunch in with giant shredders and tree root pullers to tidy up. Went swimmingly till they went through the gas main. What is so suspicious , is the TPO's were all done fresh three years ago when one of the owners died. Then all of a sudden, a developer wants to take them down, oh that's all right then, can't stop affordable housing in the middle of a private estate. What is the point of TPO's if nothing is done when they take out three of the row, cunningly opening up the entrance on to the main road, and now they want to reduce the rest of the row in half. Their own tree consultant has said that it will probably kill them. What really makes me mad is trying to slide it through while everyone is in lockdown, and the council offices closed to the public. The local MP has written to the developer, in her words, he was very unsympathetic to the plight on the old in lockdown without computers. Complaints to the planning dept got the response that they have done what they legally have to. That big cedar in the third photo, and two silver birches minding their own business are to go as well.
We were replacing a boiler and cast iron bath. I asked the plumber how we were going to get rid of them. He said just leave them in the front garden and they'll be gone in the morning. And so they weređ A couple of days later someone knocked to ask if they could have the copper immersion heater tank. This was in the back garden and not visible from the street but I suppose it was easy enough to work out we had one. I'd promised it to the plumber so they didnt get it.
Perhaps theyâd flown a drone over your area looking for âstuffâ and spotted the tank !
One is a colleague who doesnât understand teamwork.Â
The other, a friend who isnât working, doesnât need to work, has no underlying conditions, isnât in the vulnerable group. She goes to her local centre on a daily basis to buy her food for the day. She then slates another friend who has been helping her elderly dad with household chores saying sheâs putting him at risk!! Iâve tried to say it might be better to do a weeks shop or at least a few days or even volunteer if she is bored. It fell on deaf ears.Â
A map has been published showing how many dead in each area. There are 5 in our area, and 17 in the town next to us. They may all be in Nursing homes, However, since one of the nursing homes is 100 yards from us, and the bus stop they use next to us, I am sticking to going out once a week at a quiet time to get food.
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