I think I'd go with the advice you've been given. Tree hollows aren't necessarily a bad thing nor weaken a tree in all cases but it looks a bit 'top heavy', badly pruned and not in great shape..and in a public open space. I hate seeing trees felled but sometimes it's for the best.
Once you've been told it's unsafe the property owner will be liable for any damage done if it falls ... I doubt that any insurance company will pay out if professional advice to fell it has been ignored.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's a private development of a number of blocks of flats in communal gardens with lots of mature trees. It's looked after by a committee of residents plus we pay a managing agent to run the place for us, and it is them who commissioned the report. I'm not on the committee. I love trees and hate seeing them removed, so if I could have put forward a strong case for not removing the eight that he's said need to be, I would have done, but from what people have said here I don't think I can.
I think that it would be wise not to object. Will the Committee be planting new trees to replace them? If so, you could put forward some trees you particularly like, assuming they would be the right ones for your location. You would then have the pleasure of watching them grow.
We are in a conservation area, and in addition all the trees here are subject to Tree Preservation Orders. I think a condition of any removal of these is that replacements are planted, but I am going to check that they intend to.
@stringersimon67 Years ago I temped in an arboricultural consultants and from what I can recall, the consultants always recommended planting a replacement tree and gave suggestions for suitable species.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.