"I think that I shall never see...

... a poem lovely as a tree."

I've met with the tree officer at South Cambs about concerns expressed by residents that the building work at Station Road is reducing the number of trees beyond what had been approved.

The officer has now come out to check on the ground against the plans. The problem is that ordinary trees and hedges are described as of "low amenity value" which can be grubbed up and replanted, and I suppose in twenty years time it will look alright. But people (and birds and animals) have got used to a wild wood between them and the A505 and now there isn't much at all. Technically, all this is in Duxford Parish, so Whittlesford Parish Council have not been part of the loop. One thing the tree officer did say is that the parish council should chip in as much as possible with regard to saving trees, as that can be used to balanced the arboreal reports that tend to say it can all be replanted. At least the horse chestnut and the fruit trees have all been saved.