‘High quality’ tree in the way of house plan

Congleton Chronicle Series

‘High quality’ tree in the way of house plan

Councillors have been asked to approve a tree preservation order on a specimen in a garden where there are plans to build a three-bedroom detached property. The mature copper beech, within the grounds of 51, Lawton Avenue, Alsager, has been described as “high quality’ by tree experts at Cheshire East Council, whose head of planning had recommended that it should not be felled because it was in an area of town that did not benefit from extensive …