ragwert Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 Mill Street has been closed due to residents saying that a tree on Castle Green side was slanting after Storm Doris.I don't know who in Mill Street would report this tree as I remember it being on the same slant some 40 years ago when I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted February 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 They are cutting it down now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamski Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 Another one bites the dust. Very sad. Are they going to plant anything in it's place I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aylestone Voice Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 They are not cutting it down I am told that it was inspected and there was little if any movement in the trunk. What they are doing is removing branches on the Mill Street side so at reduce the weight and reduce what pressure there might be pulling on the trunk As to its long term future who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 So our preferred partners, BBLP, will have routinely checked this tree and found that it wasn't about to fall over, so why the panic and chainsaws now? Perhaps they haven't been doing their job and haven't looked at it? Surely not. Our previous preferred partners Amey cut down a perfectly healthy, rare and historic tree in Mill Street, a criminal act, which the Council glossed over, so there is reason to question what we are paying for. I don't of course expect any answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aylestone Voice Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 I can only assume that after Doris Day local residents were concerned about it falling onto their houses although why I don't know? (I assume you would be relaxed about that ). I am told the tree was inspected by Gerry Ross Tree Surgeon either yesterday or today. Perhaps you had better ask him exactly what he recommended but with the age and lean of the tree the removal of some of the branches presumably cannot be a wholly bad and criminal thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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