Mill Street closed

[ragwert]

Mill Street has been closed due to residents saying that a tree on Castle Green side was slanting after

Storm Doris.
I don't know who in Mill Street would report this tree as I remember it being on the same slant some 40 years ago

when I was a kid.

[ragwert]

They are cutting it down now

[adamski]

Another one bites the dust.

Very sad.

Are they going to plant anything in it's place I wonder?

[Aylestone Voice]

They are not cutting it down

I am told that it was inspected and there was little if any movement in the trunk. What they are doing is removing branches on the Mill Street side so at reduce the weight and reduce what pressure there might be pulling on the trunk

As to its long term future who knows?

[twowheelsgood]

So our preferred partners, BBLP, will have routinely checked this tree and found that it wasn't about to fall over, so why the panic and chainsaws now? Perhaps they haven't been doing their job and haven't looked at it? Surely not. Our previous preferred partners Amey cut down a perfectly healthy, rare and historic tree in Mill Street, a criminal act, which the Council glossed over, so there is reason to question what we are paying for. I don't of course expect any answers.

[Aylestone Voice]

I can only assume that after Doris Day local residents were concerned about it falling onto their houses although why I don't know? (I assume you would be relaxed about that   ).   

I am told the tree was inspected by Gerry Ross Tree Surgeon either yesterday or today. Perhaps you had better ask him exactly what he recommended but with the age and lean of the tree the removal of some of the branches presumably cannot be a wholly bad and criminal thing?