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Of course not but I have no real say in where my taxes are spent but I am far happier for them to be spent increasing bio diversity rather than destroying it.

I’m sure plenty of tax money has gone towards poisoning the environment over many years.

Cheers I will for sure.

Brilliant and very interesting project. I’m in Bristol and would love to visit if you’d be happy to have me?

A great opportunity to join one of our leading companies. https://www.treeworks.co.uk/about-treework/jobs/

Thought half the lane was going to come up with at one point.

Good work and great to see.

Its worth going back I'd say....well worth it.

Ive been looking through this thread again. This is such a fantastic photo David. It says so much. The way the trees mirror the sky scrapers, complete opposites. I love it.

A few are dotted around Arbtalk in different threads. Embarking on a mission.....bloody hell I've got a lot of photo's. Its hard to look at some but a joy also. I might be some time.

Feel blessed to have had the privilege of working there. Special.

The London Plane outside my house reacts exactly the same. Always a cluster of leaves left on the tree that are closest to the street light.

Having been up to Sheffield on numerous occasions now to see the trees being felled I can tell you now that there are hundreds of perfectly healthy trees being felled for minimal surface damage. I would suggest that anybody with an interest in what is going on up there go and take a look for themselves and then form their own opinion.

One of my favourite things to see on a tree. That’s a beauty.

Hadn’t taken his anchor out by the sounds of it?

I’ve been saying the same for ages. Met somebody the other day with a TPO Oak with Ganoderma which they are having to pay for a Picus investigation on due to Ganoderma decay and then pay for future management costs and inspections. They are pretty skint and want to just pay a one off cost of removal which being TPO’d they obviously cannot do without proof it is justified.

Then they have to maintain 1000’s of mature trees for the next 25 years of the contract. Take out a number of the decent trees, resurface, plant saplings which will need very little work, sit back.

Amey have the contract for all services including roads, pavements and trees. They have their own Tree inspectors who identify ‘problem’ trees which are causing ‘damage’ to pavements, kerbs and roads. The council appointed an independant Tree Panel who on numerous occasions have looked at condemned trees and said they should be retained only to have the decision overturned by the very council that appointed them. Obviously it is far quicker and cheaper to resurface if the teees aren’t there. Alternative engineering solutions as put forward by independent bodies are being ignored. Because of course it also eats into the profits. It’s a total mess and utter madness Mick.

You’re right as I pointed out at the beginning but it is part of the management program which has seen huge amounts of healthy trees felled and some fine mature trees on the list. See the Ash and the Oak I posted in the thread above. From what I gather they want the felling program to stop and open dialogue to commence and the management program reassessed and rightly so.

Trees such as these being felled.

And that’s ‘security’ not a tree lad

The relationship between residents and the teee lads is pretty good on the whole. They get brought coffee and biscuits most days. There’s a lot of media spin to say the least.

If the residents don’t try to put a stop to it and the whole management program reassessed then 1000’s more healthy mature Street trees will be lost.

Get where you are coming from Mick but you can’t leave a site on a public highway in this mess.

This from a resident. We can all see the state of this tree and it’s removal appears to be warranted. As I have shown in other threads however some of the decision making with regards removals are astounding. Today a new security firm arrived, refusing to show badges and some dressed like this. The situation is a mess. So, here's an accountof Amey/SCC's efforts outside our home today. I'm livid, in case you were wondering, and therefore my editing instincts are a bit compromised, so I may go on a bit. However, I've read & re-read it and it's 100% accurate, as best as I can recount. Late this morning, not one but two pick-ups carrying a large number of barriers arrived. Before I'd had chance to get outside, two more pick-ups had arrived (that's 4 truckloads of barriers. For 1 smallish cherry tree) and the first crew had erected barriers around the tree. Then, they just hung about (as did I, on my own property) saying that they doubted that felling crews would attend that day, which made me suspect that felling crews were in fact on the way. Then they all left. 4 trucks and at least 6 men to erect 4 pieces of 2x1m plastic fencing. Sure enough, less than an hour later they were back, this time with chainsaws. More barriers were erected to form a "proper" exclusion zone, which also had the effect of excluding me or our neighbours from accessing or leaving our houses. Despite my presence, one arborist ascended the tree and proceeded to lop off a large branch; he was then told to stop by his (presumably) superior who pointed out that I was standing under the tree (I find it hard to believe that the arb didn't know this as I was less than six feet away from him). By this time I had been joined by a neighbour and a couple of friends, and the crew (which now numbered about 8-10 people, at least one of whom was wearing a full-face balaclava) were clearly coming to the view that they weren't going to progress much further. So they slowly packed up, removed the full exclusion zone, leaving 5 free-standing barriers surrounding the tree (and the lopped branch, which they declined to clear away), and left. All of this happened with absolutely zero verbal communication to me from any of the contractors; in fact I'd say they were actively ignoring myself and the other "protestors" (for "protestors", read "concerned residents who don't want to see their street environment decimated"). It's a new tactic to me, and whether or not it's designed to intimidate, it does - as does the presence of masked operatives. The remaining barriers, having not been secured in any way, have inevitably blown over in the high winds. One is blocking the pavement, another is obstructing the road, and another has fallen on to my car. So I'm about to go out and stack them neatly against our wall, and consequences be damned. I strongly suspect that some of what went on today contravenes HSE legislation, and/or other laws, and/or Amey's own guidelines. It certainly contravenes common sense, decency and respect for the citizens SCC is supposed to represent. And what has apparently been going on in similar vein in other parts of the city today just beggars belief. Just a reminder: 6 (at least) vehicles and 12 (at least) workers/supervisors/observers, to achieve absolutely nothing -