Council tree felling...

[harvey19]

3 minutes ago, spilldig said:

Try and live with one outside your house. Caused misery here with broken sewers cracked paths, £100s  spent cleaning gutters and down pipes out, having to have lights switched on all day in summer because it's so dark. No problem when we moved in but no work done on them for years . The houses round here are 3 storeys and they tower over them.

The problem is that like in many areas of life people support things which do not directly affect them adversely.

Trees need maintaining regularly if they are not to become a problem.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, spilldig said:

Try and live with one outside your house. Caused misery here with broken sewers cracked paths, £100s  spent cleaning gutters and down pipes out, having to have lights switched on all day in summer because it's so dark. No problem when we moved in but no work done on them for years . The houses round here are 3 storeys and they tower over them.

There's the answer  "no work done on them for years"

It's not the fault of the trees, but the council who's done no work on anything for years.

Council answer to everything - Buildings:  let them fall apart then we have excuse to knock them down.

Trees:  let them grow our of control then we have excuse to chop them down.

They should not be higher than a 3 storey house on a residential street.

It's humans who are spoiling the streets , not trees.

 

Your eyes must be very very poor if you need lights switched on all day in summer.

Typical exaggeration.

[Baron99]

I'd say the majority of the London Plane trees in & around Nether Edge are mostly in the region of 100ft plus.  The locals fought to keep them & after all the kerfuffle with a number of them being earmarked for felling because they were previously deemed to dying, dangerous, detrimental & all the other stuff SCC & Amey came up with,  surprise, surprise, the trees were kept & solutions were found to repair uneven & cracked pavements. 

 

Of course this meant that Amey had to carry out the works & dip into some of the billions that council tax payers had handed them for maintenance work, rather than just pocket the cash.

[lazarus]

I still think back handlers drove the felling of the trees.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, HumbleNarrator said:

Felling trees with the back of their hands?? that's impressive.

You'd be amazed what politicians can do with back handers these days.

[vmam]

1 hour ago, HumbleNarrator said:

Felling trees with the back of their hands?? that's impressive.

So sorry for the extra " L ", suppose you are purrefect .

[spilldig]

22 hours ago, Organgrinder said:

There's the answer  "no work done on them for years"

It's not the fault of the trees, but the council who's done no work on anything for years.

Council answer to everything - Buildings:  let them fall apart then we have excuse to knock them down.

Trees:  let them grow our of control then we have excuse to chop them down.

They should not be higher than a 3 storey house on a residential street.

It's humans who are spoiling the streets , not trees.

 

Your eyes must be very very poor if you need lights switched on all day in summer.

Typical exaggeration.

Who are you to start on about exaggeration. I am not lying?

[hackey lad]

2 hours ago, spilldig said:

Who are you to start on about exaggeration. I am not lying?

It is a shocking comment.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, spilldig said:

Who are you to start on about exaggeration. I am not lying?

In America, Canada, Brazil and many other countries,  people live directly underneath trees, 4 times the size of ours which make ours look like little weeds.

Some of them probably don't have electric light.    Enjoy being a caveman, it's helping the planet and remember,  every tree is worth 100 times that of every human.

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, HumbleNarrator said:

Stop exaggerating 😜

Sorry,  got carried away