On a related issue - where an insurance company has identified a council tree as the culprit in a subsidence case and the council agrees to chop it down, is there a requirement to replace with a different tree? I am asking as this has happened with two trees in our street and currently in our own situation. So three gaps where lovely pear and cherry trees were is an eyesore apart from anything else. A mystery why certain trees, though beautiful, are planted only to be removed?