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Why the scorched-earth policy on tree pruning?
• I WAS interested in C Graham’s letter (March 5) about the annual severe pruning of trees in Lady Margaret Road.
When I moved into the area in 1987, I was first attracted to the cherry trees blossoming in Ospringe Road and to the greenness of the area. Sadly, over the years, these trees have disappeared or been pruned or pollarded to the oddest shapes so that they no longer bear leaves. I now note the whole of Ospringe Road down to Brecknock Road is to be closed to parking on March 17 for “tree pruning”. As most trees have been removed, one wonders what they are about to do. The beginning of Ospringe Road off Brecknock Road had four beautiful Italian elders, one of which was quite unnecessarily cut down to a stump one afternoon some years ago. When we complained, we were treated with enormous arrogance and told that the tree was diseased. This was totally untrue and it emerged that the tree had been cut down in error. After we made a fuss, the tree was replaced by a shrub – not the same thing at all.
Why does Camden’s tree department operate a scorched-earth policy?
JANE JONES
Ospringe Road, NW5
• ALL over Camden one sees unnecessary pruning done in the most insensitive manner.
Correspondence with Camden’s tree supremo, pleading for the thinning of branches or for some twigs to be left to allow leaves to grow or suggesting that every other tree be pruned every other year, yield no result.
Could Camden take advice from the Woodland Trust or the Royal Horticultural Society, so that essential pruning is undertaken without spoiling the streetscape?
Couldn’t some money spent on pruning be diverted to planting trees?
ROD HARPER
Montpelier Grove, NW5
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