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Trees at wellpark.

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  • 06-11-2008 2:42pm
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    renmorescout
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    I was driving up the Monivea road at lunch time today, and saw that two lovely old tree were being cut down, just to make the enterance to Wellpark estate a bit wider. Seems a pity to lose two mature trees just to take a minute or two off the daily commute!


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    sgthighway
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    renmorescout wrote: »
    I was driving up the Monivea road at lunch time today, and saw that two lovely old tree were being cut down, just to make the enterance to Wellpark estate a bit wider. Seems a pity to lose two mature trees just to take a minute or two off the daily commute!
    This was in the news months back and I think the trees were diagnosed to be a hazard due to their age and danger of falling.


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    Zzippy
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    renmorescout wrote: »
    I was driving up the Monivea road at lunch time today, and saw that two lovely old tree were being cut down, just to make the enterance to Wellpark estate a bit wider. Seems a pity to lose two mature trees just to take a minute or two off the daily commute!
    sgthighway wrote: »
    This was in the news months back and I think the trees were diagnosed to be a hazard due to their age and danger of falling.

    They are being removed to facilitate widening the Monivea Road, not the entrance to the estate. Thats what it said in the paper anyway. AFAIK there is nothing wrong with the trees at all, but they might claim that to have an excuse to fell them...


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    Mrs OBumble
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    renmorescout wrote: »
    I was driving up the Monivea road at lunch time today, and saw that two lovely old tree were being cut down, just to make the enterance to Wellpark estate a bit wider. Seems a pity to lose two mature trees just to take a minute or two off the daily commute!

    You've never crawled down Monivea Rd / Wellpark at peak time have you.

    Two trees will do nice things for the planet. Reducing idling-in-traffic time for a couple of hundred cars by 5 minutes per day for, say, 30 days per year will do good things for the planet too. I can't say which will be best for the built environment ... but ... it's not all that simple. Twould have been best if someone had done some planning before the trees were ever planted, but that's probably asking a bit too much ;-)


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