protected trees cut down on Green Lane

Surely someone signed off their removal, won't be hard to find out. A FOI could take a while especially with the MBC if they were involved at all.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Phillippa Storey is saying that there were previously safeguards in place and is asking who and why they were removed.
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Who is responsible for implementing the safe guards?

I remember a few years back a house not far from the art college chopped down a tree that was safeguarded to build an extension, they pleaded ignorance of any restrictions and got fined something trivial like a £100
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Who is responsible for implementing the safe guards?

I remember a few years back a house not far from the art college chopped down a tree that was safeguarded to build an extension, they pleaded ignorance of any restrictions and got fined something trivial like a £100
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There is a tree officer - shared by two boroughs I think. When we were doing archaeology in the summer at Kirkleatham we had to call him in because roots had been disturbed. I think I am right in saying Middlesbrough shares that officer with Redcar and East Cleveland. Our tree was actually coming out 3 months after we had been digging but the officer still had to be consulted to see if he wanted it removing then or leaving with damaged roots until the winter.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Good point! I wonder if protected trees do have any identification points on them?
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I have seen tagged trees but not sure of the meaning. In theory tree fellers should really ask questions and be accountable for their actions if they knowingly fell trees before checking and inform the authorities if being forced into it. Money, money, money comes to mind.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Councillor Phillippa Storey is trying to find out "why the previous safeguards surrounding what could be built on the old CCAD site were removed."
But in the meantime you can now add a memory stone or wish for the remaining trees at the old CCAD site.

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That tree is part of the fabric of my life. As a kid at Green Lane school I ran through the tree branches as part of a game and knocked myself out on the trunk. A mate's mum, who lived close and was a nurse helped to sort me out. I'm really struggling with the idea of having a supermarket there. Mr Jardine, the ex head at Green Lane when I was there, lived just over the road and I could imagine him turning in his grave at the thought of it.
 
The Female Black Poplar stands for now, although going by recent events who knows? Will this weekend see further quick clearances? There are still lots of questions to be asked about the destruction that has happened thus far.

There are only 600 Female trees left in the Country, our magnificent specimen being the most northerly. They & other valuable forms if habitat support other important forms of wildlife. They need robust protection from these sorts greedy acts
 
This should be as far as whatever it is they have planned is allowed to go, that is a far better punishment than any tuppence ha'penny fine.
 
It wasn't all that long ago, possibly about 20 years, when the headlines in the Gazette were about Middlesbrough Rugby Club possibly doing a deal with a supermarket re the ground on Green Lane was it ?
The talk was of deeds of covenant on the ground and eventually the "sell out" was avoided .
Those flats fronting onto Green Lane are the result of the "negotiations " between the Rugby and Cricket factions at Acklam Park.
I suppose this tends to suggest that Green Lane is not sacrosanct from change.
 
It reminds of the Scientific Institution Building debacle but on a less extreme scale. They must know there's a chance that ultimately they won't get planning permission, so why hack the trees down now?
 
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