The trees in Barry Road

[duchessofdulwich]

does anyone know when the council plan to trim the trees back in Barry Road? they are more or less blocking the pavement in certain places. sorry needed to have a little grumble about this!

[HonaloochieB]

Oh stop, I like some tree coverage, and wouldn't cut a leaf off their branches.

It'll be autumn soon enough and no one will remember the leaves.

It's only for a few months each year, and we can always duck and dive around them, so let's keep Barry Road a proper avenue.

[Sue]

duchessofdulwich Wrote:

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> does anyone know when the council plan to trim the

> trees back in Barry Road?

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You could phone Southwark Council tree department and ask them?

[HonaloochieB]

Sue Wrote:

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> duchessofdulwich Wrote:

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> > does anyone know when the council plan to trim

> the

> > trees back in Barry Road?

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> You could phone Southwark Council tree department

> and ask them?

No, please don't. You'll only encourage the blighters and they might think they might have to actually do what you're suggesting.

Let it lie. Do.

[Sue]

Have found the tree department quite helpful in the past :)

[HonaloochieB]

Sue Wrote:

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> Have found the tree department quite helpful in

> the past :)

See, Sue now I feel I'm being led down the path of the joke about the trio of Irish arborealists, you know the tree fellers.

Now I consider it I don't know the beginning of the joke.

[Sue]

Tree fellers :))

[SteveT]

They (Southwark) trim them every year HB whether you like it or not,

and it is very narrow in parts especially for the notorious ED buggies.

[Jeremy]

HB - that is the start of the joke.

The punchline is that they don't apply for the job, because there are only two of them.

[duchessofdulwich]

Hoonaloochie: I do agree with you the trees look lovely. However I care for a 95 year old lady and trying to push her down barry road in the wheel chair is becoming tricky and its not easy for us to "dodge" them

[Nero]

At the top of Bazza Road, near to the carpark of the Plough the new trees there seem to have died a death. All the leaves have fallen off. I got the impression they'd been planted to be hardy and adaptable to harsh weather - hot harsh weather, but they seem to have fallen foul of cold harsh weather!

[Sue]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> HB - that is the start of the joke.

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> The punchline is that they don't apply for the

> job, because there are only two of them.

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:))

[DJKillaQueen]

I'm sure the council will only be too happy to cut back any foliage where there's an obstruction to pedestrians. Just common sense.

[HonaloochieB]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> HB - that is the start of the joke.

>

> The punchline is that they don't apply for the

> job, because there are only two of them.

Oh now I see, the joke is on the employer, asking for a trio when he only wanted a duo.

Booked Foster & Allen when what was required was the original Thin Lizzy. Or something similar.

Or something else.

[Clare11]

Why don't they just cut them down and be done with it?

Last year the trees were hacked back to within an inch of their life, which seemed to be done for no obvious reason, and now just look like telegraph poles with leaves.

If they'd been grown with care and forethought, Barry Road could have enjoyed a canopy of trees rather than what we've been left with.

It's not that hard to dodge a few leaves here and there.

[HonaloochieB]

Clare11 Wrote:

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> Why don't they just cut them down and be done with

> it?

> Last year the trees were hacked back to within an

> inch of their life, which seemed to be done for no

> obvious reason, and now just look like telegraph

> poles with leaves.

> If they'd been grown with care and forethought,

> Barry Road could have enjoyed a canopy of trees

> rather than what we've been left with.

> It's not that hard to dodge a few leaves here and

> there.

Well said Clare, I'm stupid and ungainly and I manage it.

[SteveT]

They were trimming some trees today between Underhill and Uplands roads.

[treehugger]

I completely agree with claire11. Last year the beautiful trees in Barry Road, which used to form a fabulous canopy all the way up the road, were hacked apart and now look - to my eyes - pretty pathetic in comparison

. FGS just push your way past and be pleased you can almost imagine yourself in the country.

[treehugger]

Wonderful husband has taken his secateurs and clipped back the overhanging branches. Hopefully this will have solved the problem. Perhaps a lesson for us all?

[minder]

I hope they don't cut back the trees and bushes just yet like Southwark Council did this time last year in my local park.

Now is the time for baby birds and mummy birds having their nests taken away isn't very good. Even if you can't see them they're there. I ended up with lots of baby birds on my patio last year because Southwark Council hacked away!

[pmcmullan]

Having had subsidence because of the lime tree outside our house, we're pleased that the council pollards the tree very 3-4 years. It soons recovers and keeps growth under control. We have a lime tree at the bottom of our garden which has caused subsidence to the property at the back. We have been told by their insurers to keep the tree growth under control otherwise we will be responsible for any further damage to that house. Maybe the council has similar responsibilities?

[Pugwash]

Southwark Council were forced to reinburse a large number of insurance companies many years ago when it was proved that the tree roots in Barry Road were actually causing subsidence. Since this area has a high subsidence risk, it is cheaper for Southwark (and other councils) to keep the trees trimmed every so often