TPO being removed

[mickdundee]

My home county council are going to lift a TPO to fell a 100 year old Cypress because it blocks the view of some new townhouses!

I hope it's ok to share this but there's a petition to save the tree if anyone would care to sign it.

 

Thank you

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/696/456/233/stop-durham-county-council-felling-a-100-year-old-cypress-tree/

 

 

 

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[MATTMOSS]

If the tpo is being lifted for the reason you give then it is disgusting.

I will sign the petition.

[skyhuck]

TPO on a Lawson cypress?

 

What were they thinking?

[Mick Dempsey]

All this stuff about Charlie Chaplin films and the Statue of Liberty.

 

Cut it down.

[Gary Prentice]

Playing devils advocate.

 

Would you also propose felling all the Lawsons and Leyland's from national collections and arboretums?

 

I think there's an attitude that the commonplace has no value.

[treequip]

 

What were they thinking?

 

Possibly something along the lines of "there us a nice big tree with plenty of amenity value"

[mickdundee]

If the tpo is being lifted for the reason you give then it is disgusting.

 

I will sign the petition.

 

 

 

Thank you [emoji106]

 

 

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[MATTMOSS]

All this stuff about Charlie Chaplin films and the Statue of Liberty.

 

Cut it down.

 

It isnt the best way putting a case together comparing the age to things like that i admit, it devalues the argument imo, sticking to the arboricultural facts about the tree would be more suitable.

More regard should be given to trees of this status.

To remove such trees to make way for development is bad enough but to open up views alone is even worse.

Some people just dont appreciate trees i guess.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

A link to the planning page of the council might be useful (if online)

 

It might show consultee comments and give an idea of the thinking / justification behind the proposal.

 

The petition looks like it might be written by an excited 3rd party, perhaps with emotion rather than knowledge of the full circumstances?

 

The wording "lift the TPO so that it can be felled" seems a bit suspect for example.

 

Retain the TPO and condition felling approval with replanting requirement would seem more normal?

 

Charlie Chaplin films.....

 

Can't say I'd consider my life to be empty and meaningless without them.

 

Empty and meaningless perhaps, but not through the absence of Charlie Chaplin!

[mickdundee]

Yeah the guy who wrote all the guff is a resident not a tree surgeon. It's Durham county council but I haven't been in their planning page myself

 

 

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