Leading Britain’s Conversations (LBC) has featured an ‘opinion piece’ on the announcement by Rishi Sunak that the government will be introducing a Duty to Consult on the felling of street trees in England.
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Leading Britain’s Conversations (LBC) writes:
The public mood cannot be misunderstood – we like trees, and we don’t like them being chopped down.
This duty was already enshrined in the Environment Act 2021 and should have been brought in months ago….
In Plymouth, after a long campaign by our group, STRAW (Save the Trees of Armada Way), to inform residents of what our council had planned for our urban forest, we were eventually offered a public consultation on the scheme….
Trees are big news at the moment, following the Sheffield scandal, the felling by Plymouth City Council, and other campaigns up and down the country….
Retaining trees should be the starting point. Felling must be a last resort.
