@mirandola - you might be right there. I was taking that from p25: "The council are removing these trees because they are our trees and we wish to ensure that the correct trees are removed."
But I agree it's ambiguous and I may be reading it wrong…
And while we're at it, here's some perspective from a carbon point of view. These are rough and ready calculations, but they make the point.
General rule of thumb: - One broadleaf tree, over a 100 year lifetime, fixes one tonne of carbon. So 10kg …
You can have your own opinions, but you can't have your own facts.
- The council cut the trees down. - The council's objection was to the whole development, because they wanted it for housing. - The council had discretion not to cut the trees down…
@misscara - to be fair to yourself, you've been raising the question of the trees for literally years. It's not like it all happened for the first time last week.
The weird thing is that if you buy the Porchetta loose, it costs a fortune, but if you buy it in a panini you seem to get more for less money. It almost makes sense to buy the panini and throw away the bread.
You see, this post overcompensates by namechecking all the traditional "Chang" tropes, especially the 'comedy' grammar, in the hope that we'll forget the more recent, correctly spelled posts about the IRA and Tony Benn.
I don't know where they get their speakers from, but in recent years the bass from this event has carried further than any other event in the park. And I include the Stone Roses in that.
As ever, I agree with @joev.
I think a previous post has outlined all the different ways, both online and offline that, consultation has happened. People in general don't seem to have turned up to the consultation events. Flyers and noticeboards hav…
Stop this creeping americanisation it's 14/3. Which is 4.666 recurring.Which is no more or less a reason to eat pie than any other number.I blame Bin Laden.
@dion</div>1. The power to build, fund, host and moderate a website where everyone hates me and nothing good ever happens2. I did it to myself, I did, and that's what really hurts3. Everyone but yours. I am lucky enough to have spirited up…
Where is the community engagement? Are the sustainability plans enough? Who are Spiritbond? Why have John Jones not consulted with the community? Is there enough green space? Have we had enough notice?
Apart from the discussion of sustainability pla…
@changn4n6 To be honest, no-one knows they aren't going to do that.
A semi-mature London Plane looks like it costs £300.
http://www.pracbrown.co.uk/specimen--semi-mature-trees/deciduous-trees
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There used to be a national planning alerts site, with a public API, and we used to scrape it for all planning applications in a 2 mile radius and post it in a column on a sidebar. For some reason it got broken (I think th…