HAMBLETON District Council has approved an application from Snape Parish Council to lift Tree Protection Orders and so allow the felling of six trees in Snape Avenue (D&S Times, Sept 23).
A further application also from Snape Parish Council to fell a further 25 trees in the avenue is currently in progress. This will substantially change the character of the approach to Snape village and is likely to culminate in the total destruction of the avenue.
Residents of Snape and Bedale contributed to an appeal for funding to commission a second report to obtain further information about the state of the avenue. This second report confirmed that the trees were healthy and that not one needed to be felled, as did a subsequent report by North Yorkshire County Council’s arboricultural section.
These reports have been ignored.
This ruthless felling of healthy lime trees in Snape Avenue is a quite wicked act – incomprehensible, incongruous and unforgivable – flying, as it does, so obviously in the face of modern ecological and environmental values.
David and Edna Kirby, Snape, near Bedale
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