{"id":22763,"date":"2019-02-12T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22763"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:30:05","slug":"cardiff-residents-frustrated-over-tree-felling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-residents-frustrated-over-tree-felling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff residents frustrated over tree felling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trees being cut down across Cardiff have led to residents venting their frustration on social media. <\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDozens of pieces of chopped up trunks were seen in Hendre Lake Park, St Mellons, over the weekend. One local resident, Kayleigh, tweeted that it was \u201cawful\u201d and \u201cdoesn&#8217;t make sense\u201d.<br \/>\nCardiff Council have yet to confirm why the trees were cut down.<br \/>\nThere have also been reports of mature trees cut down across the city:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On privately owned land in Cardiff Bay in the past week.<\/li>\n<li>Campaigners continue to fight against the felling of trees in <a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/final-phase-of-roath-flood-scheme-to-be-postponed\/\">Roath<\/a> to make way for flood protection.<\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/canton-redevelopment-threatens-ancient-trees-2\/\">Canton<\/a>, campaigners are waiting for decision from the Council\u2019s planning committee on 15 trees which are at risk because of the Suffolk House redevelopment. Local campaigner Ceri Williams called the situation \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/savesuffolkhouse.blog\/2019\/02\/10\/tree-officers-calls-for-mature-tree-felling\/\">disgraceful<\/a>\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22777\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suffolk-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22777\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suffolk-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nCardiff Council says every decision on felling trees is taken separately. For example, they consider whether the tree is diseased, or refer plans for redevelopment to the planning committee. If the tree is on private land, it can be cut down by the landowner unless the tree has a specific preservation orders.<br \/>\nBut Nigel Pugh from Coed Cadw, the Welsh branch of the Woodland Trust, says: &#8220;All trees should be unconditionally protected \u2013 particularly mature trees or ancient trees.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are an irreplaceable asset.&#8221;<br \/>\nCoed Cadw points to the Welsh Government, which it says needs to do more to stop trees being cut down and to plant more.<br \/>\nMr Pugh says the Welsh Government only planted 10% of its target of 4,000 trees last year and that an increase in trees in Wales would help strip pollution out of the air, reduce the effects of climate change, improve wellbeing and increase the desirability of areas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22778\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tree2-e1549992300932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"717\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22778\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tree2-e1549992300932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"717\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Tree image credits: Twitter: @KayleighSSSOSL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trees being cut down across Cardiff have led to residents venting their frustration on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":22781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[296,418,419,420,357,359,421,422,20,423],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-canton","tag-coed-cadw","tag-conservation","tag-hendre-lake-park","tag-roath-brook","tag-roath-mill-gardens","tag-st-mellons","tag-suffolk-house","tag-trees","tag-woodland-trust"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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