Can you name and shame the Conservative Councillor on Local News etc?
I'd do that without hesitation
I think she's quite an unstable individual.
For example she somehow go my wife's phone number (council voting records perhaps?!) and called her up pretending to be our neighbour fishing for information about the TPO. My Mrs is good friends with the neighbour which prompted the caller to come clean about who she was...then she started pleading poverty! (she owns a country estate, equestrian yard and multiple rental homes).
@McRazz Your description of what went on with "your" trees was truly depressing but sadly didn't surprise me. A similar situation occurred in my village - the main part of which is within a Conservation Area. Some 8 years ago, a recently vacated property went on the market. The garden ran along the street and included an old established hedge and a huge Oak.tree. Given the size/girth of the tree, PP was needed to even prune it. Someone put an offer in for the property and within a week sent in what can only be described as Chainsaw maniacs. Hedge ripped out and tree felled. They then applied for permission to build 2 bungalows within the garden. As the property was actually a Burgage, the PP was refused. The prospective purchaser ( no contracts had been exchanged ) walked off - presumably to cause similar havoc elsewhere !. At least on this particular occasion, the property sold to a couple who re instated the hedge but the gap left by the tree is still noticeable. On a slightly happier note, a new bypass was built some 5 miles away - hedging and trees were planted . verges left intact. Over 10 years, all planting was maintained and now looks quite natural. Just proves it can be done if the will is there. Good for you that you and your neighbours managed to salvage something out of your disaster.
The morons that felled the area next to us got off scot free. They dropped trees in all directions using a chain saw and a telehandler to push them over. They cut down one of my magnolias and left trees all over my garden. The 150 year old Atlas Cedar was ring barked and has now died. This was easter 2019, bird nesting season. The council will do sod all despite trees with TPO's being felled . (not in the public interest) The police rural crimes squad were provided with over 100 pieces of evidence. They decline to do anything because we couldn't provide the names and addresses of the culprits, despite giving them the name of the company that employed them. The destruction of many trees in the protected woodland went through on the nod, apparently acceptable to give them 38 more houses. As for the wildlife, that is apparently a figment of my imagination. The wildlife experts they employed deny the five species of bats, the rare moths (first record for Derbyshire for Anarsia inoxiella), believe there may be hedgehogs, and deny any evidence of a deer on the site, despite I have video evidence of her regularly coming off of the proposed building site , onto my garden, and then back again. I didn't like being called a liar by the planners. At that point I went nuclear.
It isn't often that words fail me but reading this thread has. In both cases felling those trees was so needless because, with more care, houses could have still been built without the tree felling. .
In your case fidgetbones, being a Derbyshire lass, I know your town and the area in question and I know full well there are brownfield sites that would lend themselves and more sympathetically to new builds.
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For example she somehow go my wife's phone number (council voting records perhaps?!) and called her up pretending to be our neighbour fishing for information about the TPO. My Mrs is good friends with the neighbour which prompted the caller to come clean about who she was...then she started pleading poverty! (she owns a country estate, equestrian yard and multiple rental homes).
Its an almost unbelievable story.
A similar situation occurred in my village - the main part of which is within a Conservation Area. Some 8 years ago, a recently vacated property went on the market. The garden ran along the street and included an old established hedge and a huge Oak.tree. Given the size/girth of the tree, PP was needed to even prune it. Someone put an offer in for the property and within a week sent in what can only be described as Chainsaw maniacs. Hedge ripped out and tree felled. They then applied for permission to build 2 bungalows within the garden. As the property was actually a Burgage, the PP was refused. The prospective purchaser ( no contracts had been exchanged ) walked off - presumably to cause similar havoc elsewhere !.
At least on this particular occasion, the property sold to a couple who re instated the hedge but the gap left by the tree is still noticeable.
On a slightly happier note, a new bypass was built some 5 miles away - hedging and trees were planted . verges left intact. Over 10 years, all planting was maintained and now looks quite natural. Just proves it can be done if the will is there.
Good for you that you and your neighbours managed to salvage something out of your disaster.
In your case fidgetbones, being a Derbyshire lass, I know your town and the area in question and I know full well there are brownfield sites that would lend themselves and more sympathetically to new builds.