Why Is Sheffield Felling Healthy Trees?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/25/for-the-chop-the-battle-to-save-sheffields-trees
Surely it's illegal anyway. It's almost impossible to get permission to cut down a tree where I live so how come Sheffield are exempt?

[tamborine]

With LPA trees can be felled. Trees over hanging roads can cause ice, causing skids & death to motorists. We lost a mother & 3kids from same.

[woofgang]

no its not illegal. permitting or not permitting the felling of trees with protection orders on is a matter for the council. If the trees are not protected then its perfectly legal to fell them. They may have outgrown their space, tree roots can be very damaging

[Jahulaye]

It says in the link

“Alison Teal, a local Green party councillor, believes she knows why many were chosen: “I can only assume that because it’s a 25-year contract, they’re felling mature trees because they are more expensive. They cause pavement and road disruption and a hell of a lot of leaves fall off them.”

But that is just an assumption with real reason could well be to building expensive housing for the upper crust as has been gone in the past and thus using the health and safety angle as a stealthy smokescreen.

Darren butt says

“For each tree cut down, another is planted – saplings of the same species “where appropriate”, in the words of Amey operations director Darren Butt”

Which is fantastic news for tree lovers, tree huggers and tree protectors.

But then teal goes onto say

“Teal says it is nonsense to think you can replace a mature tree with a sapling and expect the same environmental benefits. Trees, she says, “produce a lot of oxygen; better than that, a lot of carbon dioxide is absorbed. They’re actually good at clearing out a lot of pollutants.” Given the difference in size, she says, you need to plant seven or more young trees for every mature specimen that’s cut down. And it will take decades for them to be as striking, or to provide the same shade.

Which then slams us back to reality and the horrors of which are taking place in our back yard.

[Jahulaye]

Wow after reading this

“Many cite “the battle for Rustlings Road” as a turning point – following a pre-dawn raid and scenes that the former local MP Nick Clegg described as “something you’d expect in Putin’s Russia”, pensioners were arrested for peacefully protesting. Eight trees were chopped down.”

I’d say that in my experience that there is definitely a hidden agenda and as we all know
Hidden agendas=cash

[jourdain2]

This proposal was on 'Look North' months ago. There were huge protests from local people and environmentalists. The reasons given by the council representative were not very convincing i.m.o.. I'm saddened to know that the trees are now coming down.

[emmie]

it always sad to see mature well kept trees being cut down. personally i have seen our little park lose some fine specimens because the local authority didn't have the cojones to stop some posh houses being built on this tiny space, and the trees blocked their sunlight presumably.

[Jahulaye]

The sad thing is that by cutting trees down they’re literally choking the planet to death through oxygen starvation like what they’ve been doing with deforestation to the planets “lungs” the mighty Amazon which is a crime against humanity and Mother Nature.

[emmie]

the more human beings expand the worse the planet will be, as you say we need forests and green spaces for our lives depend on them.

[Togo]

Wouldn't surprise me if in due course the "ground space" previously occupied by the trees isn't converted into off road parking spaces, with of course the necessary charges to cover the cost incurred. Large ones all round for the councilors and the parking contractors.

[-Talbot-]

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/976561149989842945

[hereIam]

I absolutely hate it when beautiful mature trees are chopped down and especially at this time of year when birds are looking for nesting sites, but I find once the decision has been made, it's very, very hard to change it. Makes me sick !!!