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To: Cllr Clyde Loakes @ Waltham Forest Council
Save the Ash Tree
Withdraw permissions to cut down the large old Ash tree at 31, E46QW and instead condemn the garages that were built too close to it.
Why is this important?
'This tree is a part of the British landscape, its lore and utility deeply embedded in our history. Of our trees, the ash is second only to the oak in national importance; scholars of Anglo-Saxon might even place it at number one. The resilient and ubiquitous ash has always been respected for its benevolent or healing properties. At least three British saints threw their wooden staffs to the ground to see them sprout miraculously into ash trees.' (Tim Richardson, The Telegraph.) Ash trees are currently threatened with Ash dieback and this great old tree is not affected, it could live another 120 years.
