New trees

[Nigello]

The empty tree pit at the Crystal Palace Road bus stop on LL (just before the Sainsbury's) has been replanted. Another, outside Sainsbury's, has also been replanted (I think).

It's good news, especially since we had been told that tree pits had to be 1m x 1m for any new planting. (I had written to the tree person at Southwark who said that that rule was very likely to stand even for the replacement of trees in the smaller, standard-sized pits.)

Anyone else seen any empty pits newly replanted?

[HRE]

how do you go about getting a new tree planted in a space that exists on a road. The council seem to have dug out the old one but have not replaced it so far.

[Nigello]

Ring Southwark council and ask for the tree department and you may be lucky. (020) 7525 2000 (5000 is the switchboard). Also, ask Cllr James Barber who has a thread on here. If you fall in his ward he will be able to advise.

[not2late]

There are also a couple of new trees on Grove Vale near Goose Green school. I think its great, and I hope Southwark plans to plant many more.

[fruityloops]

shame about the hundreds they've cut down in COC.

[Johnjohn]

When 2 trees on our road were removed I enquired about them being replaced, I was told it would be done during the 'Winter Planting Schedule' of 2014/15.

When it didn't happen, I chased and eventually got this response (in October 2015)from Ernst Erasmus - Southwark Council Arboricultural Officer - Highways

"We have recently adopted a new tree planting policy whereby the location needs to adhere to certain criteria. One of these is that the footpath (excluding the kerb) needs to be a minimum of 2.2 m in width. Unfortunately your road doesn?t conform to this criteria and therefore the council will not replace these trees."

If that policy continues forever then eventually there will be no trees at all on any roads where the footpath (excluding the kerb) is less than 2.2 m in width!

[Penguin68]

shame about the hundreds they've cut down in COC.

And indeed the millions in Brazil. Or maybe the issue for the OP was a tree planted somewhere relevant and close to them, which they could see and enjoy. The net loss of trees in COC (if one believes the council and ignoring saplings which would not have survived to maturity in a true 'wild wood') is claimed to be, over time, minimal, when replanting is then into account. It is far better for a community if the streets are indeed 'leafy' rather than concentrating trees into corralled areas. The council's policy is short-sighted. There are numbers of slender and/ or slow growing trees which could be planted - rather than the spreading London Plane or Sycamore - which would not cause the sorts of problem clearly being envisaged by the bureaucrats. Anyway, since they can build out for buses, why not for trees?