Support continues to snowball in the campaign to stop the felling of two Formby village trees, in a carnival atmosphere supporters gathered to collect more signatures and hand out leaflets as outrage grows.
Morris Dancers paraded around the larger of the two threatened horse chestnut trees and news filtered out that Formby Parish Council had secured the services of Arboriculturalist Greg Thompson to carry out a close visual inspection of the trees, involving climbing into the canopy. This follows an earlier report by Bruce Hatton the tree expert who gave the thumbs up to retain and revive the veteran trees with a program of pruning and ground works.
This second inspection could happen as early as Thursday next week, it is understood that as of Tuesday 11th of September Chief Executive Margaret Carney had not seen the fabled tree report from Sefton tree removal contractors claiming there were large holes in the trees making them structurally unsound. It was mention of this report that hardened Sefton Council's stance in removing the trees and sparked the Parish Council's "in tree" second visual inspection.
The support from the public continues to grow swelling the Facebook page to 600 members and the online petition now approaching 1300 signatures has been boosted with more than 1000 more gathered by campaigners in the village. With more to come in from shop keepers holding the petition in their stores it is expected that by the end of tomorrow support will be well on the way to 3000 signaures in the space of two weeks!
In a meeting with Margaret Carney earlier this week FRAG Councillor Bob McCann was told that the major concern with the trees relates to health and safety and although arrangements are still in place for the felling of the trees beginning 4th of October she will consider the Parish Council's report if it arrives in time.
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