Brighton Level tree chopped down

10:50am Friday 1st March 2013 in News

The remains of the tree on The Level The remains of the tree on The Level

It may have survived the Great Storm in the 1980s.

But this giant tree at The Level, Brighton, has had to be felled after high winds partly uprooted it.

Brighton and Hove City Council’s parks team said the incident happened at the start of February.

Workers cut it down at the start of the week.

A local authority spokesman denied it was anything to do with the £2.2 million scheme to revamp the popular park, off Ditchling Road, Brighton.

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Comments(9)

mustaphaLeeko says...
10:56am Fri 1 Mar 13

lol, giant tree?

The Argus definition of giant must differ to everyone else, looks like an average sized tree to me!

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Crystal Ball says...
11:01am Fri 1 Mar 13

And in other news, some grass was cut and some leaves swept up. Woo-hoo.

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nosolution says...
11:04am Fri 1 Mar 13

Really?I bet it was.The tree was still alive and so could of been pollarded horizontally,it would of made a novel bench to sit on,but then it would of got in the way of the councils flagship scheme...

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Worthingwithoutbuses! says...
12:09pm Fri 1 Mar 13

BREAKING NEWS!

The Traffic Lights have changed from Red to Green in Oxford Street. The incident attracted a big crowd... Pictures to follow.

News is reaching us that... Yes... They have changed back again. Hold the front page!

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george smith says...
12:29pm Fri 1 Mar 13

What happened to the wood, was it sold for timber and the branches sold as logs?

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fredflintstone1 says...
1:01pm Fri 1 Mar 13

No, CityParks have been giving timber away to select people. Some might see it as buying favours, but face it, with the Greens putting up Council Tax, every little helps in these economically austere times.

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george smith says...
4:02pm Fri 1 Mar 13

fredflintstone1 wrote:
No, CityParks have been giving timber away to select people. Some might see it as buying favours, but face it, with the Greens putting up Council Tax, every little helps in these economically austere times.
is this declared to the taxman? a builders sack of logs is £60

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BiggerH says...
4:10pm Fri 1 Mar 13

as long as this makes it safer for the junkies when The Level re-opens after the refurb, then well done the Greens!!

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Hoarder12345444 says...
4:32pm Fri 1 Mar 13

Arent the greens going to put those logs on a fire and burn it? Put a heater on the level for the homeless, or do they still claim burning logs causes really bad pollution?

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