Salisbury walled garden
Posted: 24 Feb 2007, 19:16
***THIS IS AN URGENT CALL OUT FOR ACTION!!***
300+ YEAR OLD WALLED GARDEN AND 15 TREES ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED ANY DAY NOW IN SALISBURY!!
In Salisbury this week, trees are about to be felled any day now to make way for the new Council Offices development and ridiculous glass office extension, that will not only be costly to built but very bad for the environment and CO2 levels. This will destroy forever a WALLED GARDEN THAT?S MORE THAN 300YEARS OLD, with two 18th Century walls, many beautiful big trees aging from 50-150 years, and inside the garden is a Victorian fountain at the centre of SALISBURYS ONLY PUBLIC POND!!
Tree?s to be felled include: Hornbeam, huge triple trunked tree, estimated 80years but grown up from an even older stump that?s possibly 150 years old. Also home to soon to be nesting bats. Sweet Chestnut, huge, about 70years old, Goats Willow, Pussy Willow, Sycamores, Hawthorn, 3 Yew trees, 3Apple trees, A Pear tree, Prunus and a Wellingtonia. There are also two other Hornbeams, one already cut down to a stump and the other half felled. Also an Oak and an Atlas Cedar / Cedar Atlantian will alledgedly be ?saved?, but we cant see that they will remain unscathed as they are right in the centre of what will be the main works access to the soon-to-be building site.
The project seemed to be on hold, but now they are pushing ahead to fell the tree?s JUST IN CASE the development project goes ahead. It?s a great shame, as this garden is very old, more than 300 years and has fondly been known to Salisbury?s children as ?The Secret Garden? for generations untold.
Please please come and help if you can, apparently they may have to cut down the remaining Hornbeam before next Thursday as that?s the DEFRA deadline as after that the bats will start nesting, so it may not even take that long. There are only 2-3 of us here, we desperately need more numbers- however many for however long/ short could really mean the difference of success/ failure. They were clearing bushes today and will fell the trees any day now or next week.
Thankyou,
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