hundreds of mature street trees in Bristol have been hoplessly over-pruned in the Autumn and now appear to be dying
The Evening Post Front Page Picture Story That Never Was..............
I'm no expert but it's nearly the end of May and these heavily over pruned trees have not managed to produce anything like enough leaves this years to survive!
These trees are on Whiteladies Road and Cranbrook Road.
The Whiteladies Road Plane Trees are in a reall terrible state and look to me like they may not survive??
But there are many more on Fishponds Road and elswhere throughout the city.
Maybe a dodgy sub-contractor has been employed to prune these trees because their managers clearly know next to nothing about arboriculture. Might they have somehow cheated in the awarding of the contract? Maybe with help from their 'friends' who are council officers responsible for oversight of tendering process?
In the good old days the council would have done this work themselves and the people involved would have been caring, knowledgable and accountable.
Nowadays these sub contractors and the council hide under the cover of 'commercial confidentiality' we all know what that means.
"I have made a pact not to grass up my friends. "

I suppose the contractors have been paid now for a 'job well done'?
Will Bristol City Couuncil's Head of Legal Services Stephen Macnamara be able to get this money back for us?
Or is he too busy struggling to justify making such a diabolical mess, as the city's returning officer, of the recent general and local elections?
Or is he too busy trying to justify the continuing suspension of our honest Bristol Coroner Paul Forrest, for doing nothing more than speaking out early in 2009 about dead bodies piling up at Southmead Hospital awaiting inquests?