Letter: ‘Church holly trees are safety hazard’
There have been a number of concerns raised regarding the planning application to Forest Heath District Council by Newmarket Town Council seeking the felling of three large holly trees. The facts are as follows. The holly tree facing on to All Saints Road will be left untouched. Consideration is being given to felling the two trees on the corner of All Saints Road and Park Lane. This is primarily because they present a safety hazard to pedestrians walking on the path beneath. Pigeons roost in the trees and their droppings fall on to the path, causing it to become very slippery when it rains.
In addition, some of the tree branches are now rubbing against the church building even though both trees were heavily pruned a couple of years ago. Basically, the two trees are in the wrong location: they are too close to the church and path.
If the decision is taken to fell the two holly trees, they will be replaced with two new trees at different locations within the churchyard. Over the last few years other trees situated in the churchyard have died of natural causes, and it will also be the intention of the church, working in conjunction with Newmarket Town Council and Forest Heath District Council, to replace some of these as well. Suitable indigenous species will be used, as recommended by the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, to provide a variety of trees within the churchyard as a whole.
Newmarket Town Council and All Saints Church are committed to caring for the environment, for all the people that walk through the church grounds, and improving the appearance of the church and its grounds, as part of Newmarket’s conservation area.
Rev Max Osborne –
Vicar All Saints Church,
Newmarket
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