Planning Application NP/TCA/0822/1042

Description

1) Lime tree, A mature tree in good health next to the Orangery yard gate next to a retaining wall and cobbled roadway. Tree tag 3485. Pollard back to main stem reducing in height and width to 20ft 2) Lime tree, A mature tree in good health in the Orangery yard next to the original meat safe tree tag 3484. Pollard back to main stem reducing in height and width to 20ft. The curator would like to reinstate the original line of Lime trees that go from the Rose Garden terrace to the Orangery yard. The existing Lime trees would need to be pollarded down to allow light for 2 new Lime trees to be planted in the gaps. 3) Ash tree, Opposite herbaceous borders tree tag 3481. Significant die back in the crown, more so this year. I estimate it’s at 50% dieback. We have been recommended to have it felled whilst it’s safe to climb and be dismantled carefully rather than leave it longer and have it felled as it becomes unsafe to climb and will damage the garden lawns and banks. 4) 2 Holly trees at the top of the steps by Hampers Bridge, one smaller without a tag and one larger but has been previously pollarded with tree tag 3375. Fell to improve light and and open up views to the stream and improve access to the corner parkland gate. 5) A live branch recently dropped from a Corylus colurna exposing significant decay within the branch. tree tag 3256. There are Ganoderma bracts lower down the trunk indicating there is much decay in the tree. To be felled and allowed to shoot from the base again and be kept as coppiced large shrub. This tree was previously worked on ten years ago due to the Ganoderma bracts and all the branches were brought back in for a crown reduction.