Dead Tree

I was informed to day by a helpful resident that the tree mentioned below was indeed a TPO Tree  (T4 within the TPO 80 Betley Village Hall).  Perhaps the Chair of the Village Hall Committee would contact either the Borough Council or the Staffordshire County Council to see what should be done about it, in terms of death of a TPO tree and a possible breach of the planning permission/conditions granted given the tree was intended to remain.  United Utilities might also be contacted, if they had commissioned the work to be done to widen the road.

It would also be useful to know when the road might be completed (ie its surfacing), when the work on the Sewage works enlargement is going to be completed and when the fence is going to be installed.   

Odour has been detected from the sewage plant last week from the main road. 

Many thanks. 



I was informed today that the mature chestnut tree that some people tried so hard to save from felling has since died.  See below:



Even dead it is a handsome tree but now it will have to be removed.  People who observed the work being undertaken on the new road say that excavations for the road went too close.   In which case arboricide might be suspected.   A sad end indeed for this noble specimen.  It is uncertain if this is a TPO tree.  If it is, it will have to be replaced by whoever was responsible, and probably in a more convenient place.

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