Council cutting down tree on Barry Rd

[rbrtdngl]

Last week I noticed a small tree on Barry tree road had been damaged during some of the recent bad weather. Although it's main branch had split, several other large branches remained in perfect order. A local resident had taken a saw to remove the main branch that had been blocking the pavement and over the weekend the council had neatened the cut branches and removed the debris. However I was somewhat saddened this morning to see he council returning to cut the tree down a take it away. I am not a tree surgeon, but this seemed a little heavy handed. Maybe the tree was too badly damaged and is going to be replaced? Or perhaps like Southwark council decided to prune some of its trees while they were in blossom earlier this year they don't really know what they are doing....I would love to see the tree replaced.