London plane tree (Platanus x hispanica) along Exhibition Way in Pinhoe (Janurary 2020)

13/1/2020

Information: The large London plane tree outside Aldi was felled to make way for the new cycle path. Details of the plans can be found here. It does advise replacement trees will be planted - but this needs to be confirmed in writing as I have seen too many cases when this does not happen.

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Jennifer Steer link

13/1/2020 22:32:09

An absolute disgrace that this tree was felled and ironic that it's for a cycle path!

Terrence Pickles link

27/2/2020 07:17:03

I know and there are more trees to follow according to the plans. This was the response I received from one of the team involved:

As part of the whole E4 Cycle route scheme, four additional trees will be felled in February near Summer Lane to enable the construction of the footbridge across Summer Lane. To mitigate the loss of these four trees, 9 trees: 5 Silver birch, 3 Rowan and 1 Wild cherry tree, will be planted in this area following the construction of the bridge in the next planting season.

I have mixed views of this as although it's a nice mix of trees - these species tend to be small to medium size (for street trees) whereas plane trees can get to a good size.

A better idea (in my opinion) would be for ECC and Stagecoach to work more closely together and improve the bus network so it's more frequent, reliable and most importantly - affordable.

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