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Why so hostile Vicks? Are you part of the problem? Verified by my own eyes on several occasions, the last also witnessed by other neighbours. The last occasion I reported it to Network Rail, who have taken the issue seriously and involved Btitish Transport Police and since then there has been no activity.
Some might also say they should look elsewhere to build the houses.
Margaret Swift, I take it that this is not a serious post, or at least not backed up by fact or verified intelligence?
True - whoever owns the land can sell it or not (although they do not necessarily have the right to do with it whatever they want). But by not selling it, or not being agreeable to selling it at a reasonable price, then the consequence is that the only other way to access the land in question is to cut down a 300 year old tree. So some might well say that the tree having to be cut down is as ...
why blame the landowner ? if its his land then its his right to do what he will with it. The more serious issue is probably the council want money from the developer but couch it in terms of needing more houses built for the community.
I've just been reading the report on Devonlive about this Starcross oak tree issue. At the bottom of the article are several comments. Here is one of them: "So a self serving landowner would prefer to see a 300 year old tree cut down rather than permit access through their land? Or are they open to access but at an opportunistic greed price? This is an unacceptable loss due to one ...
From what I've read it seems the council's hand was forced on this issue in Starcross because the only other way of accessing this site was by way of land owned by someone else. What is known as Ransom Land. So......the tree at Starcross is needing be felled either because the owner of the Ransom Land does not wish to sell or wishes to sell but only at some ridiculously extortionate price. So ...
The first picture is the area where the drug traffickers wait at night to light the way for the boats dropping off the drugs in boat cove
Wonder what this section is for?
Council votes to allow felling of a 300 year old oak tree to allow the construction of 20 houses in Starcross........................wonder how this sits with he £35k a year climate change officer at teignbridge council