Mature trees chopped down

Pops wrote:

St George's Road is the same, just stubs like by the Garden Row crossing. Such a shame

And like Gray Street. All the young trees along the south side (about six of them) were demolished by various builders' lorries during the construction of the Hilton hotel on Waterloo Road. Then Southwark Council just came along and tidied the stubs and pits up so you would never know trees were ever there. (Could be Lambeth there but makes no difference.)

Why were the builders not made to replace them and make good?

Makes me very angry!

Are you sure those trees on Gray Street were destroyed by builders vehicles? I'm not sure whether it is the same road, but one lost all its trees a year ago when we had that bad weather.

Pretty sure, Karen.

I saw a skip lorry take two out when trying to get in and out of the site one day. The ones towards the Stage Door end just mysteriously disappeared.

Several years ago I watched as a skip lorry took out a very mature plane tree just behind where I live. It broke my heart but the driver couldn't give a monkey's

I know that at least three near the Stage Door pub came down in that bad wind. I don't doubt though that contractors are responsible for the others. Most of the broken pavements around the area can be blamed on vehicles either delivering to shops or delivering to building sites.

I've never tried it myself but I think you can ask the council to put a "preservation order" on mature trees or trees that are important to an open space or community. I found this link on Southwark Council's website: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/505/trees/557/tree_preservation_orders
Might be worth looking into if anyone is worried about any other trees being chopped down in the area.

Sarah V wrote:

I've never tried it myself but I think you can ask the council to put a "preservation order" on mature trees or trees that are important to an open space or community. I found this link on Southwark Council's website: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/505/trees/557/tree_preservation_orders Might be worth looking into if anyone is worried about any other trees being chopped down in the area.

Theoretically yes.
In Southwark, no.

Ask them how many trees have preservation orders on.
Ask them how many trees got cut down last year.
Ask them how many trees are going to be cut down this year.

Answers will come there none.

Soithwark just kill trees.
Thats all folks.

I have tried myself to stop them in the long past but developers money is all that counts round here.
That does not make it right and DON'T be like me and give up, take it to the wire and make a change!

Don't forget lend lease is going to plant 1200 trees to make up for the 1200 homes they pinched on the Heygate!

There is a sign up about it and it says that the trees were felled to protect the retaining wall that holds the entire road up.

The pavement with these trees in runs along the top of the structural wall that holds the road from falling into the basements of the Guinness Trust buildings. It's a fairly narrow pavement and huge trees (they would often have a root radius of maybe 10 metres but here they get about 50cm !!) and there are big cracks visible in the concrete.. so they were always on borrowed time.

If only some councillors could pay attention to what is happening to Leathermarket-Guy St green space. As well as the tree felling, it looks as though plans to build a 8 and a half storey tower between Leathermarket Gardens and Guy St Park will go ahead. I've tried to get some action to stop this but it looks as though someone has decided to build 30 new dwellings between the two gardens and will push through plans come what may. These dwellings could easily be accommodated elsewhere on Kipling Estate. Totally mindless management.

Where is the proposed development between Leathermarket Gardens and Guy St Park to be sited? Is it a redevelopment of an existing building in Weston St?