BRIGG PROPOSAL 'MAKES A REFRESHING CHANGE'

Some Brigg councillors have expressed concerns in recent years about trees being removed from the town centre's conservation area, particularly when no replacements have been planted.
So when the Town Council's Planning & Environment Committee was consulted about notice of intention to prune, rather than fell, another tree, there was full support for this intended course of action.
The application to undertake pruning to give clearance to a dwelling and remove dead wood on a beech, which is subject to a Tree Preservation Order, relates to 10 & 12 St Clares Walk.
Coun Jane Kitching told the committee's latest meeting it was a pleasure to see pruning proposed, rather than felling.
"Some come down and are not replaced," she noted in reference to past tree applications in the town.
Information supplied to North Lincolnshire Council, which will now decide this application, explains this tree is at the bottom of the gardens of 10 and 12 St Clares Walk and 3 The Bottlings (a cul-de-sac off Elwes Street).
Brigg Town Council has now told North Lincolnshire planners that it supports this application "as it makes a refreshing change that only pruning and removing dead wood has been applied for rather than removing the tree completely."
The unitary authority has since received another tree-related application for the same area of town.
It proposes the crown reduction of a copper beech tree, protected by a Tree Preservation Order, in the garden of 7 St Clares Walk.