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Consultation on Chestnut Avenue trees on Tooting Common

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Tanya O'Garra
8 years ago Featured

Horse chestnuts can live up to 350 years. Cutting them down now has no basis in biology. Further, they provide welfare benefits for everyone who walks the common, and would continue to do so for another 100 years at least.

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Walter Xerri
10 years ago

TREES ARE NATURES WAY, OF PROTECTING US.!. NURSERY TREES SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 3 FOOT OF MULCH BELOW, THE LOWEST ROOT, THEN BE WATERED BY A PIPE WHICH, SHOULD LEAD INTO THE MULCH, I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE COMPANIES ARE SUPPOSED TO MANTAIN THE TREES PLANTED IN THE BOROUGH. WX

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Gillian Hawkins
10 years ago

These trees are part of Tootings heritage. They are also very important in helping to clean the very polluted air around the common. take out the dead ones and replant.

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Mateusz
10 years ago

Leave tree alone

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Steph green
10 years ago

Do not cut down the trees for money!!! Outrageous!!!

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San diamond
10 years ago

Shocking

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Rob Taylor
10 years ago

The Council will climb down over this tree business, as it intended to do, but such a preposterous suggestion will have thrown up a smokescreen to cover its move towards its real target - the car park!

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Jane Callister
10 years ago

I think the trees should be removed on a need to basis only.

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Alison Hurcombe
10 years ago

I believe the trees should be removed on a "need to" basis and not remove perfectly healthy trees!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I love the trees. Hope there is an alternative to destruction.

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Denise Parkinson
10 years ago

Please do not cut down the trees

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Lia Kahn-Zajtmann
10 years ago

Please don't cut down healthy trees - it makes no sense. Cut down and replace only when necessary.

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sarah greensmith
10 years ago

The trees will not save you Wandsworth Council.

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Ali abbasian
10 years ago

Must save the trees

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David Bevan
10 years ago

This 'Scorched Earth' method cannot possibly be justified.

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Shiv Underhill
10 years ago

Do any of the trees already have treevpreservation orders (TPO's)? If not, this might be a route to explore in first instance. http://www.planningni.gov.uk/8pp_tree_preservation_order_lores.pdf Or is anyone that is vaguely legally-minded up for politely reminding WBC what vandalism looks like? Esp of the healthy trees!!!!

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JIm Crossen
10 years ago

Vandalism

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Jason Prout
10 years ago

With such a historic common loved and used by so many in Southwest London, this issue needs wide consultation.

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Katie
10 years ago

This seems ridiculous.

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Rebecca Clarke
10 years ago

A treasured part of local history. The trees must stay!