“He’s looking at trees again”
That’s what my wife told a telephone caller I was doing this morning. What she could have explained is that I am a member of the Borough Council’s Public Appeals committee and that we were hearing two appeals against the making of Tree Preservation Orders.
Before hearing evidence the committtee normally carries out a site visit to view the trees in qusestion and today we traveled in a minibus to the far northern reaches of the borough. We travelled to a site north of the Blythe Bridge bypass and to another in the Dairyfields in Trentham - sites which most people would have guessed as being in Stoke-on-Trent but not so!
So having looked at all the trees in question we returned to Stafford to deliberate. And all the business was transacted before lunch.
But lest anyone should think that I’m about to take David Cameron’s advice - don’t worry! I only looked at the trees - I didn’t hug any!
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