Trees being chopped down - contact?

miss annie

I've come back from holiday to find three trees have been beheaded on our road with another tree marked for 'work'. Yes, they were healthy and mature trees.
It seems particularly mad to do this at this time of year when there are still active nests and the last of the fledgling birds about.
Does anyone know who at Islington Council is responsible for trees? I live on Islington side.

joust

Have they been chopped down or have they been pollarded?
As seen here:
https://i2.wp.com/www.gardeninginfozone.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/pollarding-trees.jpg


Pollarding is important for the tree.

miss annie

@joust Just two foot of trunk left. Destroyed.
You wouldn't do pollarding at this time of year either, almost all tree types are best pollarded in winter - my grandad was an expert gardener & allotment keeper, and a keen late winter pollarder.

grenners

Subsidence? Insurance companies can make the council liable for it because if the trees are so big the roots will be up against adjacent buildings. So beheading them is some form of mitigation and gets them off the hook?

miss annie

For god's sake! London needs more trees not fewer.

joust

Ah. That's a shame. I was hoping it was just a misunderstood tree haircut...

drjones1517

Michael Johnson
Tree Inspector
Greenspace
Islington Public Realm
PO Box 2025
PERSHORE
WR10 9BU

Tel. 020 7527 2000
Fax: 020 7527 4557
Alternatively, contact Islington to Log an inquiry – 020 7527 2000

drjones1517

Michael.Johnson@islington.gov.uk

miss annie

@drjones1517 Brilliant! Thank you.