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AND they are going to fell perfectly good trees again.

Ziggy posted this on another thread. After watching the trees being cut down at sandy lane playing fields ready for the start of the skate Park,let's hope it's not going to be a one minute or even a one year wonder. After speaking to one of the workmen involved he told me it's not often they have to cut down perfectly good trees. One wonders if the skate park could have been built on a ...

Suggest you ask DAY (Dawlish Action for Youth). They are the ones behind all this.

Planning permission was sought after the grant was awarded.

The trees need to be planted because right now planet earth needs more trees not less. They help to lessen the effects of global warming. Thus, if trees are removed others have to be planted in their place. I just wish that: 1. the trees didn't need to be felled in the first place and that 2. if they must be felled then twice their number should be planted as recompense.

The trees aren't being planted FOR the skatepark but BECAUSE of it. Five trees are to be felled!!!! to make way for the skate park. They are the trees one side of the avenue of trees leading up to/away from the sports pavilion. Because these trees are being sacrificed DAY have to plant others in compensation. Does anyone know where the saplings are to be planted and what type of tree they are?