‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass
‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass
Shropshire county council narrowly approves road handing death sentence to tree Darwin may have climbed as a boy
"But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Alternatively..
“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”
Barely seems like 4 weeks since we were launching a witch hunt because someone cut down a tree near Hadrian's wall...
Shrewsbury needs it's bypasses improved but there must be a way to swing around the tree.
In the picture there sure is a lot of area around the tree... But hey, if they have a hard on to cut down old significant trees, who's to stop them.
Significant because of its age? Sure. Significant because of its tenuous ties to Darwin? Someone named it Darwin's Oak a couple years ago to gather public sympathy against the project. You could argue against any development in the area because "Darwin may have walked on these grounds and threw rocks in this stream as a child".
Shrewsbury needs it’s bypasses improved
Does it, though? I see a perfectly good railroad, as well as National Cycle Route 81, running right through town. So WTF does anybody need a bypass for?
To turn public funds into private profits.
Imagine being this addicted to cars. Wait, thats literally every country i know about. Humanity, get your fucking shit together, your home is burning and you try to extinguish the fire with oil.
Is there not a legal challenge people can make?
Sigh. Yet another thing that must be sacrificed on the altar of the almighty motor car.
Funny how there's no massive national campaign against this like there was against HS2.
Curious if transplantation is an available option
Too old too big, I've seen it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two hundred years later, “Darwin’s oak” has been handed a death sentence to make way for a new road to bypass Shrewsbury.
Despite a long-running campaign to save the ancient tree and its fellows, its fate was sealed on Tuesday night when Shropshire county council’s 11-member planning committee narrowly approved the new road, by six votes to five.
Proponents claim it will free up road space and take traffic out of the town centre, thereby improving air quality, reducing journey times and boosting the whole county’s economy.
“I absolutely accept that the NWRR divides opinions, but I’m confident that it will make a huge difference to people, not only within the town, but also in the surrounding villages,” said Dan Morris, Shropshire council’s cabinet member for highways, after the planning committee’s decision.
[It’s] just a brilliant landmark tree that many people, many residents use … to find solace and to connect with nature and to repair themselves, really.”
The narrow approval of the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road is a dark day for the environment and our natural heritage as it threatens the loss of this living legend, numerous other irreplaceable veteran trees, and will damage nearby ancient woodland.
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