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Tree Preservation Order
Reported via desktop in the Trees category anonymously at 07:51, Wed 17 February 2021
Sent to Cambridge City Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 2551180.
Bird Cherry trees require urgent protection (three trees in an unused wild area at Chesterton community college). The closest neighbours to these trees are no. 29, 31 and 33 Gilbert Road respectively.
Under the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 these trees need to protected for their individual, collective and wider impact, as well as my personal sense of well-being as I suffer from severe depression.
These trees are visible to many neighbouring households, as well as the school, and need to be protected on those grounds. Additionally, they are central to important wildlife, and in the increasingly hot and dry summers (due to climate change) provide shading and protection, keeping moisture in the soil.
This group of trees need to be protected for the extensive benefits they provide to the community and local wildlife.
Additionally, these trees were conditional to the approval of planning permission that was previously granted, for the construction of Mitcham’s park.
These trees are host to an array of wildlife, and include many species of birds, wild insects, squirrels and more. In short, a whole ecosystem. Two beekeepers with several colonies rely upon these trees for their bees. Nesting Bullfinches are also present. Additionally bats have been sighted in the area. I am unsure if these are the rare protected bat species.
Furthermore to the bird cherries providing wildlife habitat, they provide the local area with oxygen, clean air, screening, and minimise noise and light pollution to and between the school and surrounding neighbours.
The trees are used to observe and watch wildlife, providing joy to local residents. I have spent many hours watching the birds in these very trees.
Nature is crucial to the public’s well-being. These trees are particularly important to my well-being, as I have severe depression. When we are in Lockdown, and I have had to stay at home, looking out at these trees everyday has provided immeasurable pleasure and benefits, in a really bleak world. I am looking forward to the burst of wildlife that comes with spring in these trees.
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