Anger at loss of ?flourishing and beautiful? tree in Warren Street ...

By News Reporters

A healthy tree on Warren Street was cut down to prevent its roots damaging a building.

Residents living near the junction of Warren Street and Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia are angry about the loss of a healthy tree which was cut down by Camden Council because its roots were potentially a threat to a nearby building.

A note was posted on the tree in March saying it had become necessary to remove the tree. It was then cut down in April.

The tree was apparently removed because its roots were causing subsidence to a nearby building. Camden Council told local residents the tree will be replaced by one with a smaller root system.?

Fitzrovia News understands that the tree was removed?to prevent a possible insurance claim from owners of the building behind where the tree was growing.

Councillor Tulip Siddiq, Camden?s Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities, said: ?The tree was removed as it was causing tree root damage to a building nearby, and we intend to plant a replacement tree with a smaller root system. The Council only ever removes trees if they are dangerous, dying or due to tree root damage claims and this is always a last resort.?

However, residents living nearby say the the reasons for removing the tree are spurious.

All that?s left of a healthy tree after concerns about root damage to nearby building.

Rebecca Hossack, who lives in Warren Street and had paid for the tree to be planted many years ago as part of a project she initiated to green Fitzrovia,?said: ?It is a great shame that this flourishing and beautiful tree, that brought a splash of softening greenery to west end of Warren Street, has been obliterated by the council just ? it would appear ? to assuage the routine anxieties of an insurance company.

?Whatever the council says, this was unnecessary. I am sick of small lollypop trees being planted all over London. This was a beautiful flowing tree with a bird?s nest in it. Totally healthy,? said Ms Hossack.

Other residents agreed.?Sophie Pandit told Fitzrovia News: ?I am very upset by the loss of the tree, not least because it was situated opposite our flat and I took great pleasure in looking out on it, but also because there seems to be a lack of transparency about the reason for its removal. It was the sole tree on the western end of Warren Street. Its loss will be keenly felt.?

The tree was well established and local people said it greatly enhanced that end of the street. The only other tree is on the corner of Fitzroy Street, about 150 metres away.

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