I find it extremely odd that on the one hand the council are chopping down mature trees and natural habitats to make way for houses and roads to nowhere and on the other saying we need to plant woodlands!
This council has allowed so many mature trees to be chopped down in recent years – over 30 disappeared in three days about five or six years ago by Woolram Wygate school, supposedly because they were too near the houses!
I actually cried, I loved walking down that walkway, I felt for a few minutes that I was in the country!
They were replaced two years later by nine column saplings, at least one died because they were not looked after during the summer. The birds, including owls and the squirrels have not returned as the trees are still not mature enough for them to roost.
Other saplings have been planted on new estates to replace beautiful mature trees but again they are not looked after during the hot summers or they are pulled up by vandals. Either way money is wasted.
Where are these woodlands going? Our open spaces are being removed to build more and more houses.
Are you going to knock down more houses by compulsory purchase to plant trees that will take years to mature to become a woodland?
You couldn’t make it up!
Wendy Kirk
Georgette Gardens
Spalding
