Plymouth City Council is facing calls for an independent inquiry into the decisions behind the night-time felling of 110 trees in the city centre for a regeneration project.
image: for illustration – Plymouth as seen from the Wheel of Plymouth by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
… Contractors fenced off public areas and felled the trees….before an injunction stopped work…
BBC News writes:
… Contractors fenced off public areas and felled the trees on Tuesday night as part of a £12.7m regeneration project before an injunction stopped work.
The Green Party said councillors were given no time to scrutinise the executive decision ordered by Mr Bingley, the Conservative leader…
Campaign group Save the Trees of Armada Way (Straw) said it had applied for a judicial review into the decision to fell the trees…
Adam Cormack, head of campaigning at the Woodland Trust, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, it was ‘not always easy’ to retain trees in a redevelopment.
“But there are some really good examples around the country of where mature trees are retained and they can have a very transformative impact on the look and experience,” he said…
