Public tree butchery, Loch Lomond

[daltontrees]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/police-hunt-men-who-butchered-12255074

 

Totally bizarre.  This area is in full view of Lomond Shores visitor centre etc. which gets 10s of 000s of visitors a week.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.0068717,-4.5929892,420m/data=!3m1!1e3?dcr=0

[Stubby]

TCD wont like those stump heights .......

[stihlmadasever]

I stay just a short distance from loch lomond and ive seen this first hand.

Absolute disgrace to do this in the national park at such a scenic area.

Just dont understand why these halfwits done this,all the woods been left onsite and the cuts would say its non trained people who have perpetrated this blatant vandalism.

Edited March 28, 2018 by stihlmadasever

[Lucan]

Vandals wouldn't cross cut and stack the wood though (see more photos on FB page). I'd guess has been cut for firewood (either self use or for selling). Cut during a weekend morning then return during the night to remove the timber. Have been a victim myself with my own woodland.

[scotspine1]

Interesting.....

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/01/loch-lomond-flamingo-land-grandeur-glamping-scotland-heritage

 

https://www.iconicleisuredevelopments.co.uk/index.php/about/

 

https://www.facebook.com/iconicleisure

 

 

 

 

[daltontrees]

Hmm. Land owned by Scottish Enterprise, who commented that some trees would need to be felled. Preferred bidder status for redevelopment given to Flamingoland. Treees flattened, then TPO preventing the few surviving trees being felled. Stinks! I know what I think.

 

TPO attached, which includes official justification for TPO, otherwise known as shutting the stable door way too late.

20180321-A3P-TPO-Drumkinnon-Bay_v02-for-website(1).pdf

TPO-No-10-of-2018-2018-03-22-Redacted-1.pdf

[scotspine1]

very interesting.....

 

http://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2018/03/28/the-butchering-of-trees-at-drumkinnon-bay-whats-going-on/

 

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[Steve Bullman]

bizarre indeed!!  so someone has just cut them down for seemingly no reason whatsoever...Has to be money involved, what other possible reason would someone bother to go to all that work for

[drinksloe]

It does make u wonder wot the plois reponse time was?

 

Felling 100 odd trees is hardly a covert op, by the time u start saws etc.

Also it really doesn't look they've had any training/experience the way the stumps were, u can't jst cut that many trees down in 5 mins

[daltontrees]

Someone has commented they were there for 5 hours.