WOW

[Mesterh]

Hmm, I'm also wondering what good reason there is for someone to destroy property that isn't there's.

 

If it does turn out to be a disgruntled farmer then its worse, imo than if it was a dickhead 16  year old kid doing it for a laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

[Doug Tait]

1 hour ago, roboted said:

Could it have been felled the other way ? ie away from the wall.

 

Yes, easily, as long as you're not trying to fell it surreptitiously in the night during a storm to cover the fact you're felling it!

[renewablejohn]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Like?

We dont know the circumstances as yet so to early to speculate. However if it was a landlord, tenant dispute at the end of the lease and the landlord refuses to pay waygoing on the mature tree then the tenant would be entitled to coppice the tree subject to the normal caveats.

[Mark Bolam]

Bullshit.

[doobin]

51 minutes ago, renewablejohn said:

We dont know the circumstances as yet so to early to speculate. However if it was a landlord, tenant dispute at the end of the lease and the landlord refuses to pay waygoing on the mature tree then the tenant would be entitled to coppice the tree subject to the normal caveats.

???

 

you’re going to have to explain a bit more. 
 

are you saying the tenant had timber rights and felled this before his tenancy lapsed to spite the landlord for not renewing the lease? If the tree wasn’t officially protected then this might actually be legal!

[Mark Bolam]

I doubt the police SOCO’s would have been crawling all over the place if this was the case.

 

[Mesterh]

1 hour ago, renewablejohn said:

We dont know the circumstances as yet so to early to speculate. However if it was a landlord, tenant dispute at the end of the lease and the landlord refuses to pay waygoing on the mature tree then the tenant would be entitled to coppice the tree subject to the normal caveats.

Do you have a bit of inside information?

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, renewablejohn said:

We dont know the circumstances as yet so to early to speculate. However if it was a landlord, tenant dispute at the end of the lease and the landlord refuses to pay waygoing on the mature tree then the tenant would be entitled to coppice the tree subject to the normal caveats.

 

Not sure how this goes with a tree that was there well before the tenancy started, probably had very little care or input from the tenant. Might be different if for example the tenant had planted an orchard. However I don't think that this counts as coppicing either

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Bullshit.

Measuring 15.75 on the old Oxometer .

[Slicer Dicer]

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I can see that such a popular spot could have been cause for contention. This kind of thing going on and other such things not that it excuses doing this 😡 That's the son- clearly not a 16 yr old. The father could be in his 60s though. All speculation of course. Was the tree actually protected? Got a feeling whoever did perhaps knew it wasn't..?