Residents of a street in Eccles have expressed their outrage after an application to cut down a 200-year old tree was submitted to the council.
Residents of Glendale Road received a planning application from landlord Dr Quasim Abbasali, one tress he wants to be felled is dead so that needs to go but the residents say he us using that as an excuse to get rid of them all to make it more desirable to look at.
The planning application was submitted on March 7, to fell two sycamore, a cherry, a laburnum and a hawthorn tree
The trees surround Glendal’es apartment building at number 3. Due to the landlord now living abroad Glendale road residents haven’t had contact with him directly.
Deborah Henley, a resident of Glendale road, said: “You cant just cut down a 200 year-old tree, it has a preservation order.”
“The trees stretch up to the second floor of the apartment building, so they provide us privacy. If they cut them down then they will take away some of our privacy.”
[The other residents] feel the same as I do, the trees also help to cover when there’s excessive noise.”
She also doesn’t want them to be felled as they are healthy and let out oxygen. The trees also have preservation orders, so felling them would go against those orders, which Mrs. Henley believes to be wrong.
The neighbours said that the council sent two people to inspect the trees.
One of the main complaints that Mrs. Henley expressed was that birds are nesting in the trees. In response to this, the council released a statement, saying: “If birds are nesting in trees it is recommended that the work is not carried out between March and August to avoid any potential offence under the 1981 Countryside and Wildlife Act.”
The statement also read: “A Tree Preservation Order (TPO) is an order made by a Local Planning Authority (LPA) in England to protect specific trees, groups of trees or woodlands in the interests of amenity. A TPO does not prevent works to protected trees, it allows the LPA to monitor those works by means of a tree work application. You do not need to be the owner of the tree to submit a formal application.
“When making a decision on a tree works application, our Arboricultural Consultant visits the site and carries out a cursory assessment of the trees, their condition and whether the information that has been provided is sufficient to justify the works to the trees, taking into consideration any loss to the amenity of the area”.
The council is yet to make a decision on whether the application will be successful or not.
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