Tree cutbacks

[butters]

Hi everyone

The (I assume) council have cut back the trees outside my house on Newlands Park and I assume quite a few more are in for the same fate. I assume its been done to cut off the dead parts so it can grow back healthier?

Is there a reason though, that it has to be done now, and not in autumn I wonder? From a purely selfish aesthetic view, the tree looks like knarly stumpy fingers, like a horror movie! I wonder why it cannot be done later in the year when the leaves have dropped rather than the summer when the lush green looks great and provides shade?

[Eagle]

I agree best to cut back in non growing season. However I presume they have tree surgeons who need annual employment

[alywin]

Have they "lollipopped" them, then? Before I moved here full-time, I had a mile or so's walk to work, around lunchtime, along a straight road where Bromley had just decided to "lollipop" the trees. It was in the middle of a 30-degree-plus hot spell, and suddenly we had no trees we could take refuge from the sun under anymore! I was cursing Bromley because it was so hot I felt that I was about to collapse - and none of the alternative routes I could take to work had any shade whatsoever any more

[butters]

Ha! Never heard lollipopping before.

If it wasn't for the trees on private property, Newlands Park would look like the back harden of the Addams Family......

[mosy]

Have you tried asking the council? It does seem counter-intuitive to lop "bole" now, although I'm hardly a tree surgeon, but maybe due to disease or a TFL instruction if reducing bus drivers' visibility or bashing against the sides of bus windows maybe? Someone will know why so it wouldn't hurt to ask:
https://www.lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/ ... fault.aspx

Please let us know what they say as you've got us all curious...