FamilyWiggs
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A patch of woodland adjoining a nearby pub and sandwiched between two roads was recently sold off to a developer for 5 houses (no doubt "luxury"!).
I fully expected the whole lot to go, and sure enough most of it was grubbed within a couple of days. I was very pleasantly surprised however when they spent the next 4 weeks repairing and meticulously rebuilding about 100 yards of stone walling along the roadside, doing a fantastic job, with some very nice cock and hen capping. They seemed to come to a gap in the middle of about 6 yards or so, where a very large oak tree had pushed out the walling. They had left the tree, and it seemed as if they were going to accommodate the tree and the wall somehow.
And so it stood for the past 2 weeks.
When I drove past yesterday, they'd cut the tree down and it was lying on its side, debranched in the middle of the plot.
B@stards. I am livid!
It must have been 100-150 yrs old, and was a beautiful specimen. In many ways, once the rest of the plot was grubbed and you could see the tree in isolation it was even more magnificent.
Had they grubbed the whole lot from the start I would have been less upset - but clearly they care enough to respect and repair the wall; just not enough to respect a tree on the edge of their plot.
Why do they do this, and why do we let them? The new homeowners will have no idea of what has been lost. It's not as if there aren't any brownfield sites in the vicinity.
SWMBO thinks I am getting grumpy and middle-aged, despite having only notched up 35 years so far.
I fully expected the whole lot to go, and sure enough most of it was grubbed within a couple of days. I was very pleasantly surprised however when they spent the next 4 weeks repairing and meticulously rebuilding about 100 yards of stone walling along the roadside, doing a fantastic job, with some very nice cock and hen capping. They seemed to come to a gap in the middle of about 6 yards or so, where a very large oak tree had pushed out the walling. They had left the tree, and it seemed as if they were going to accommodate the tree and the wall somehow.
And so it stood for the past 2 weeks.
When I drove past yesterday, they'd cut the tree down and it was lying on its side, debranched in the middle of the plot.
B@stards. I am livid!
It must have been 100-150 yrs old, and was a beautiful specimen. In many ways, once the rest of the plot was grubbed and you could see the tree in isolation it was even more magnificent.
Had they grubbed the whole lot from the start I would have been less upset - but clearly they care enough to respect and repair the wall; just not enough to respect a tree on the edge of their plot.
Why do they do this, and why do we let them? The new homeowners will have no idea of what has been lost. It's not as if there aren't any brownfield sites in the vicinity.
SWMBO thinks I am getting grumpy and middle-aged, despite having only notched up 35 years so far.