Does anyone know why one of the large trees at the bottom of Lombardy Drive ( on the green ) has been cut down ? Was it sick or rotting ?

I know earlier this year I spotted men from DBC looking at the other one and suspected they might be thinking of chopping the odd limb as it seems a little unbalanced.
Nothing happened until a few weeks ago when I saw the other one had been chopped down.
They work in a strange way, they did a similar thing in Briar Way. The excuse was it was 'necessary and legal' (strange phrase if you think about it). I asked the new man in charge who told me it was rotten and had to be felled. The trunk looks in fine condition. Our local councillors seem not to care in the slightest, but then, I didn't vote for them so you can't blame me. Even the Citizens Association appear to only worry about trees in the town centre or in the Castle area and they used to be the bastion of tree welfare in the town but I'm no longer a member of that lot either.

It was a cedar wasn't it ? DBC seem to have it in for cedars at the moment, apparently because they can drop their branches without warning "which may cause death or injury to children playing beneath"....No trees = no law-suits; easy really....

NedKellyGuy - I have a spy in the area who is watching like a hawk - even the prime bit of grass up in the far corner - just waiting for something to happen to that one.