Broadway Insanity

lindsay ormerod

lindsay ormerod

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I guess all the regulars on here will be familiar with the 4 fairly large,mature trees that grace the front of "charity shop row" at the top end of Broadway. Well;as of yesterday they are no more! Chopped down to mere stumps to be dug up and replaced with ..guess what...other trees!
I find this totally ludicrous,yes the whole of the revamped Broadway does look better,but would we have minded or noticed if the trees didn't all match???
The sapling oaks that will no doubt take their place will cost about £100 each and will take about 30 years to attain their size.Surely the work could have gone on around the trees.Grrrr.:mad:
 
Not a lot to say really, I think you've said it for me. It's pathetic that trees have to be chopped down simply because they don't look new and won't match the others.
 
I hate it when someone comes along and chops down healthy mature trees.
There should be some kind of consultation process........I wonder why it was done.
 
It seems to me that the powers that be want it all uniform;a big fat waste of our council tax yet again ! I would welcome some feedback from our resident councillors on this as it seems all the more ridiculous when think how that money could have been better spent on a few more litter bins !
 
It makes me want to cry when they chop down trees and then replace them with daft sculptures...give me living, breathing, pollution removing trees every time. I often wonder about the birds too.....they have to find somewhere else to roost.
 
Hows about a living willow arch planted in planters to match the existing ones MP ? one planter one side, other that side, bend the willows over and weave them together to form an arch.
A daft sculpture and living, breathing, pollution removing.
 
It is total madness. The top end of Broadway is a different shape anyway to the bit in front of the Arndale so why did it matter that there were different trees? It added to the interest.

What a completely mindless waste of money from a council that claims to be strapped for cash.

What next? Will they be digging up that bit of a garden thing with benches in front and paving the area and putting big round pink planters on it to match the other ones?:mad:
 
May as well willow, they've started so the least they can do is coordinate the seating area. It will have to be repaved anyway.
 
Totally agree with all that's already been said.

Yet again why the hell couldn't they get it right the first time! ..... blunder after blunder after ....... :(
 
Well im with you lot its totally a waste of money & tree poor things.

As tinks has highlighted is the fact broadway has always been a bloody expense gone wrong everytime they try to 'improve' it only to make it worse & drain revenue, it seems to be a blaming nightmare to get it right without it dug up or pavings coming lose or re-design cos of some pompous councillor. I'd hate to tot up the total cost of broadway since even 1950's cos its done nothing but either change or need constant attention due mess ups with design & construction problems!!!
 
Come on you lot.... you actually sound surprised that HBC would do something like this!!!!????!!! :eek:

Wonder if PB has a real log fire and was running short of logs for it??? ;)
 
harwood red said:
Come on you lot.... you actually sound surprised that HBC would do something like this!!!!????!!! :eek:

Wonder if PB has a real log fire and was running short of logs for it??? ;)
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Surprised erm nope peed off yep lol:D

I could tell ya where he can shove his log fire:rolleyes::p
 
harwood red said:
you and me both, hee hee or should we actually show him??? :p
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We'd only have to show him cos he just wouldnt understand it deaf ears an all so we'd just have to stick him the point instead;):D
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
I hate it when someone comes along and chops down healthy mature trees.
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Were they healthy and safe?
If yes then I too wonder why they were cut down.
If no then this is a pointless thread.

Someone could always phone Kate Morley, Hyndburns tree officer on 356203 and ask why they were cut down.
 
How long would you expect a town centre to last ?
How long before a tidy and spruce up?
and how long before the paving is replaced, new planters lighting, street furniture etc??
How many times has broadway been redone? I've got no idea being an outsider. Both nuneaton and tamworth were done in late 80's when they were pedestrianised, both undertook further pedestrianisation two years ago 04 and tidied small parts of the previous scheme up. so thats about 15-20 years. Atherstone had a major refurbishment work, in 95, that made headline news with spiraling costs. The work went so over budget that a large chunk of the work was never completed, the main road equivalent to broadway, was meant to be resurfaced with stone but got left as tarmac. Then it started to fall apart, and the cobbled speed bumps had to be replaced with tarmac. It's still slowly falling apart and as it does the clay pavers, stone, rivern paving and cobbles get replaced with tarmac. full circle 11 years.
 
Thinking about it your lucky you've got trees, ours died, and got cut down, and were never replaced. the rest were very weak, and recently also got cut down. They were part of the refurbishment too.
 
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I just made the call for you. The trees have been in decline for several years with a lot of dead wood in them ( remind you of anything :D ). Some of that area of Broadway is actually owned by LCC not HBC. Something to do with it used to be part of the road or foot path. Sounds confusing to me all this HBC owns this and LCC owns that, it makes me think maybe Blackburn with Darwen had the right idea when they kicked LCC out.

So there you are. Trees taken down because of health reasons.
 
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