Sharon Chapman, one of the residents who has organised the petition, said she was concerned that the council would eventually be creating a 'mini forest'.
Aren't people
usually happy about this?
She said: "It is mad. It is meant to be an open space for children to play and for dogs to run and they are just going to plant some trees instead.
"It won't be like a park anymore."
Errr, well, actually, yes it will. One
expects parks to have trees. Otherwise, they are just fields!
"Many of us bought houses with a view of the park and the lakes, and this is a mental amount of trees for such a small area.
"It will put people of (sic) that part of the park. People won't want to wander past the trees and the bushes at the night time. It just doesn't seem right."
Ah, I see! It's property values that are the concern!
A spokeswoman for the council said: "The new native species being planted, which include Field Maple, Common Crab apple, Mountain Ash and Bird Cherry, are of the ‘small garden variety’. They are being planted to replace a collection of Poplars which previously stood at around 28m high.
"The young whips are currently unbranched stems, which measure no more than one metre tall and will take in excess of 10 years to reach full maturity. Even then the trees are not expected to grow larger than 8m in height due to the nature of the heavy clay soil at Danson Park."
Wait, you're planting trees where the conditions aren't ideal?
The council also said that not all the trees will survive, with an expected failure rate of 40 per cent in the first two years.
Hmm, seems like the waste of taxpayer money should be the real concern here, doesn't it?
I'd much rather have a view of trees than of 'Children playing and dogs running'.
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ReplyDelete"A spokeswoman for the council said: "The new native species being planted, which include Field Maple, Common Crab apple, Mountain Ash and Bird Cherry, are of the ‘small garden variety’"
ReplyDeletespokeswoman - oh, isn't that sexist? Spokesperson surely?
Trees of the ‘small garden variety’ - what? It's a multi-acre park, not a garden
Plant some useful trees: apple not crabapple; cherry not bird cherry; hazel not field maple; oak, chestnut, beech, birch and larch not mountain ash aka rowan.
OT Ping: http://www.4liberty.org.uk/2018/01/23/critical-theory-versus-critical-thinking/
"...Hmm, seems like the waste of taxpayer money should be the real concern here, doesn't it?.."
ReplyDeleteShould be, but has that EVER been a concern to those wasting it>
Have a look at this from the Forestry Commission about failure rates. To summarize: The mortality rate of newly planted trees runs between 30 - 70% so a certain number of losses is to be expected and planned for. But, they are the Forestry Commission and are therefore as a government body and experts probably know nothing and you would be best placed to advise them.
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BTW This took me about twenty seconds to search.
https://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Trees-people-and-the-buit-environment_Hirons.pdf/$FILE/Trees-people-and-the-buit-environment_Hirons.pdf
"I'd much rather have a view of trees than of 'Children playing and dogs running'."
ReplyDeleteMe too!
"Didn’t we recently have this one?"
I Tweeted it.
"Plant some useful trees: apple not crabapple; cherry not bird cherry; hazel not field maple; oak, chestnut, beech, birch and larch not mountain ash aka rowan."
I suspect they can only plant what their outsourced landscapers provide!
"...but has that EVER been a concern to those wasting it"
Very true!
"BTW This took me about twenty seconds to search."
Blimey, are you still on dial-up? :D