New Planting On The Eastway Border Of The Warehouse Development Pictured Feb 2024 (image: Mark McCormack) A resident living opposite a controversial warehou
Urgent rethink calls at Ingol roadworks amid reports of multiple crashes in daysBattle for the soul of Ashton Park: Legal challenge expected after residents ‘totally ignored’ in favour of ambitious plansA resident living opposite a controversial warehouse development in Fulwood has branded trees designed to replace those wrongly removed during its construction as “a joke”.
The Broughton Tower Way resident conceded that it would not be feasible to replace the established tree cover that was lost on a like-for-like basis, but added: “I’m sure you could do a lot better job than they have attempted.“I think there is a definite middle ground they could have put in an effort and said, ‘This is the most we can do to rectify it’ – or try to make it less horrendous.
“In the summer, you couldn’t see through the trees – and then there was a portion at the bottom that had grown up to create this nice effect. “These trees are to replace the trees removed during construction. Trees are to be spaced sufficiently to provide screening over time,” the document explains. According to the authority’s latest enforcement update, that move required the applicant to provide information within 21 days to demonstrate that the development had been “carried out in accordance with the requirements of the conditions attached to the planning permission…because the information was not prior submitted to the local planning authority for approval”.
However, Phil Cousins, the city council’s development management team leader, told a meeting of the authority’s planning committee last week that the application to “regularise” the scheme was lacking in detail – meaning members could not yet be asked to come to a decision over whether what was being proposed to put the situation right was acceptable.