#Ealing resident & chair of Old Oak #Neighbourhood Forum campaigning against #OPDC highrise plans #pollution & greedy developers' plans
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#HS2 are closing Old Oak Common Lane for FOUR years for ever changing reasons. This will cripple the area. HS2 refused entry to over 40 local residents at their drop in tonight. @RupaHuq @BlerinaHashani
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The other side of @HS2ltd
Being in homes in @WellsHouseRoad feels like being onsite though opposite; this vid taken after my visit from an upstairs window
Constituents suffering noise, dust, vibrating houses in age of WFH need respect and proper compensation
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"ROAR"
Sky's Arts and Entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer speaks to the team in the show 'Hold On To Your Butts', who are performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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I hope everyone boycotts the business now. Atrocious. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-c…
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Looks like the tree destruction was a joint effort between @tobycarvery parent co. @eatdrinkmb
@SpursOfficial partly own the site too.
The tree posed a risk - NO
The tree was dead - NO
Toby Carvery, ignorant about tree ecology - YES
Boycott them? YES
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-c…
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An ancient oak tree that was felled by the owners of a Toby Carvery could have lived "for another few hundred years", the local council has said. Pub chain Mitchells & Butlers said on Tuesday it was responsible for chopping down the 500-year-old tree earlier this month.
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UPDATE: @tobycarvery has admitted to felling the irreplaceable heritage oak at #Whitewebbs, falsely claiming the tree was dead.
This ancient oak is situated 14m from their car park on land they do not own.
Demand justice: enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-c…
#WhitewebbsOak
This is a tree of national significance that has been brutally felled. The perpetrators must be found and face prosecution.
Please could everyone who cares sign & share this petition to get justice for the #WhitewebbsOak 🙏
change.org/p/justice-for-the…
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It’s now confirmed that Toby Carvery did indeed fell the Whitewebbs Oak, on the same day that evidence is emerging the tree may have been 500 years old. The lame excuse they gave that the tree was “dead” is not only false (ecologists have found green buds on the felled branches) but in any case inadequate: ancient oaks host many unique species in their dying phase, which can take a century or more.
@tobycarvery now need to apologise for this desecration of our natural heritage & reassure us all that trees elsewhere on their estate are safe; if not, customers should boycott them as a company.
The fact that a company like Tony Carvery can apparently just decide to fell a tree older than the United Kingdom without consulting the authorities, arboriculturalists or ecologists shows that our current tree protection regime is clearly inadequate. In this comment piece for the Evening Standard, I look deeper at the problems with legal tree protections, & some potential solutions.
standard.co.uk/comment/oak-t…
Very disturbing reports today that a nationally significant ancient oak (over 6 metres in circumference) was felled in Whitewebbs Park in Tottenham. The facts are still not clear about who did it & why, but it appears to be on land owned by LB Enfield who did not give permission, so has been reported to the police as criminal damage.
Despite its age & size the tree did not have a Tree Protection Order (TPO) on it because the Council does not consider that trees on land it owns do not need TPO protection too. They have now put a TPO on the remains of the tree, but it’s too soon to say whether the tree might produce fresh pollard growth or be killed by the shock.
This shows the desperate need for better protections for our veteran and ancient trees. A building the same age as this tree would almost certainly be listed (council owned or not), & we should have an equivalent system for trees, with equivalent enforcement & punishment.
In the meantime, @EnfieldCouncil need to:
- Properly investigate who felled this tree & demand prosecution.
- Practically & legally protect the remains of this ancient tree.
-Put TPO’s on all remaining trees at Whitewebbs Park to stop anything like this happening again.
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This is what selfish morons at @tobycarvery did to a magnificent 450-year-old oak tree next to its car park. Had no preservation order, so they destroyed it.
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'It makes me incredibly, incredibly sad but most of all it makes me really, really angry'
Sara Lom from The Tree Council spoke to #BBCBreakfast after pub chain Toby Carvery ordered the cutting down of an ancient oak on health and safety grounds after it was told the tree was dead
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewg…
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Ukraine was invaded by Putin's Russia. Everyone in the world understands this simple fact apart from Donald Trump.
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If you or your parents are thinking of buying a retirement property built by McCarthy Stone, please don’t
Why? Because nearly 60 per cent of the flats it has built since 2010 that have resold have lost money, leaving their owners £41,000 worse off on average
#leasehold 👀
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At 11pm that night, she sent an urgent email to the head of the local council explaining all the ways they were failing in their duty to this woman and demanding to know how they would support her going forward. That’s somebody who cares about the safety of women and girls. 2/2
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I once contacted @jessphillips out of the blue for advice about a woman I was trying to support who had fled domestic violence. I emailed her at 7pm on a Friday night not really expecting a response. 1/2
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Our new report: 40% of all HMRC late filing penalties charged to people who don't earn enough to pay tax.
420,000 penalties charged to people on low incomes over the last four years. Article here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/06/26/…
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Good morning! Can you tell how chuffed I am to see @Dauntbooks gorgeous display of my #SevenWonders book! Thank you booksellers! ❤️ #books
266 bus ploughs on as the A4000 Victoria Road in North Acton floods yet again - time this was fixed. Once #HS2 shuts Old Oak Common Lane for 18 months next year, this will be the only road through this neighbourhood.
Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre’s annual photography competition is now open: cuanwildliferescue.org.uk/ev…
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His departure triggers an immediate by-election in his West London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
He learned this week that the Privileges Committee into whether he lied to Parliament over Partygate was recommending a suspension of more than 10 days.