Whaaattt?

I agree that 'special' trees should have protection but this article is making out that Nottingham Trent Uni is responsible for the demise of the tree. It is suffering from honey fungus so will die sooner rather than later. NTU have tried to help the tree, the Brackenhurst campus (agricultural, conservation, horticulture and animal care) is only a mile away from the tree and has been closely monitoring it and has taken grafts. They have also only owned the house since 2018 and was privately owned before then and it survived. Southwell (said suth-ull) is an expensive place to live and anyone looking to buy there will be well aware of the trees history. The tree is on the towns signs, a pub shares the name, road names, a festival and the house has a blue plaque. It is a great place to visit and I love Southwell Minster. I'm 6 miles away from it.

 

I think whoever buys the property will for ever be answering the doorbell to folk who want to know about the tree’s state of health.

 

The tree is sick but will live on in all the grafted trees that have been taken from it and multiplied by further grafting. I have one in my garden, planted nearly 2 years ago and now producing fine apples. Let's hope it survives the developing weather patterns here of summer heatwaves and drought then winter sog.

 

Growing up we had a garden that had been part of an orchard and most houses in the row had at least one apple tree in the garden. We had a totally impractical very large Bramley apple trunk was 4 ft across and the top was 40 + feet up. I used to get sent up it with a saw to prune out some of the larger branches.

 

A change of subject; the idea of visitors leaving there mark on monuments they visit has gone on for millennia.
Language Log - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll

 

Another change of subject...........the planned housing on green space in NESomerset......it appears to be simply to ensure this govt's "new housing quota" is filled one way or another by local councils. They rabbit on about social and affordable housing but rarely provide it.

 

Oh yes affordable housing, plus GP surgeries & dentists. Complete BS
by any Government in power

 

People are looking to buy or rent somewhere to live and the developers build 4 and 5 bedroom houses on gated estates.
Somehow they sell them, so the money is around, but would I pay the kind of money they want for one of those overlooked crowded places for the stupid prices.
No way.

 

There is a large development going on near where I live. In the planning agreement one of the conditions was that a primary school had to be built after 500 homes were sold. The developer wants to change that to 1200 homes, claiming there is no current need for the school. The developer should be told that the original planning agreement stands. There have been too many instances of all the houses being built and sold then the developer says they can no longer afford to build any of the required infrastructure.

 

When Labour got in to power AR got up and said they wanted all green belt reviewed and recategorised as grey belt where appropriate so that it could be built on. She said for example ugly bits like car parks, which are green belt would be redesignated as grey belt.

So our council had a review done and guess what - almost all of our green belt is now potentially grey belt. Even beautiful rolling countryside, Royal Sutton Park and the golf course behind us is now potentially grey belt.
The criteria for grey belt is so biased. It's a joke.

 

Listened to a speech by Rupert Lowe.

 

And??