Despite organising Britain’s largest tree hug, Coventrians are unable to prevent 26 big old trees getting the final chop-chop
In the largest scientific study of its kind, Coventry demonstrated that when the council is out to build you some roads, a tree hug isn’t going to change that, even a really big one.
Coventry Council are replacing the 26 old trees with 32 new ones, which people rightly point out will be tiddler sticks in comparison for decades to come.
Several of the felled trees were Giant Conker Trees, which are like conker trees but old.
Image copyright: Coventry City Council
Apparently some trees being felled are Ash, which basically all have dieback disease now. That kills their branches to varying degrees, and often the whole tree over a long enough period, so even healthy looking Ash trees in public areas got to go: it’s them or us.
Hugging or not, this is terribly sad, especially as these trees look perfectly healthy.
Hi Elizabeth,
Yes, it’s always a shame to see big old trees go. We couldn’t find any photos of the Ash trees in question, but given that pretty much all of them have dieback to some extent now, it’s reasonable to assume that they were suffering from it. The other trees were just in the way, unfortunately.