Hi Can you help re a street tree issue? In August 2008 (sic) I called out the council because the tree outside my house was split down the middle and I was afraid a branch might fall on someone. They came the same day and cut the tree down to a stump, and said it would be replaced. By the end of January nothing had happened, so I phoned them up and they said a new tree would be in by the end of March. By the end of May - no tree, still a stump. I phoned again and they said that according to their records the case was closed and in any case the tree planting season was over! They gave me a new reference number and said they would be along to remove the trunk, and would then replant the tree. I even requested a particular tree, which they noted (Betula jacquemontii, a type of Birch which is used locally as a street tree). I phoned again yesterday, as - still the stump is there. They didn't seem to know anything about it. Yet again I was told someone would come along to have a look at the tree, and yet again I was given a different reference number. I asked for the number for the tree department and they said they didn't have one and that the department had been disbanded. What's going on?!?!?!?! I was fond of my tree, and would like to see another one there. Preferably within the next decade.