Comments on: Save The Trees Of Spitalfields

By: Helen Shelley

Helen Shelley — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:33:16 +0000

Does anyone know what is currently happening with the trees? I have noticed that last week one was cut down. This week two of the trees have been cut right back, with all their leaves and foliage striped right back (surely this is the wrong time of the year to cut them back so severely? and could cause damage?)
I dont trust the developers or the Planning dept and worry that we will loose the trees for good.

By: Ben Hutton

Ben Hutton — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:24:52 +0000

Objection made too!

This area is so special and individual, and to see it picked at by the fat cats who really wouldn’t know soul if it sat on them, really breaks heart and all reason.

Working and living in the area for many years, you really see the pride on the streets, this needs to live on for so many reasons. Here today, hopefully here tomorrow.

By: teapot

teapot — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:48:27 +0000

Looking at the Fruit and Wool Exchange peacefully sitting there in the sun, this all seems so utterly horrible and senseless – the vista from this direction is so comfortably in context, unlike the jarring mess you get when looking in the direction of Spital Square. Taking the trees is just adding insult to injury. Objecting.

By: jenn

jenn — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:36:01 +0000

These are beautiful buildings and trees. It’s a pretty area, and now it’s going to be soul-less like most of the rest of London is. I see no reason why they want to destroy nature and history. Greed.

By: belle

belle — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:20:20 +0000

My observation over the years of people who place the making money above all else is that they by and large don’t do street life. To them, that is where the little, non people live, the losers, the drones. They feel superior in their status cars, going door to door about their business. They don’t have empathy or conscience. They have seemed to me, when I have heard their world views, like psychopaths, that is what we’re up against. Resistance is essential, they are voracious.

By: Riki

Riki — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:25:23 +0000

Just as we find comfort in a breeze that tames a summer’s heat,
So do we find, in the steady sway of a familiar branch,
the same, certain shadow, to walk with us.
We do not wish to say good-bye to the Trees of Spitalfields,
To our friends, season upon season, year after year.

By: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:32:58 +0000

I get deeply upset each and every time I walk past the Fruit & Wool Exchange. Absolutely no need for this large and handsome, yet understated and much-loved old building to be demolished. To then rip these dignified old trees up from their roots is just rubbing salt into the wounds of the local community.

One is not supposed to use the ‘C’ word, I suppose, but on an intuitive level it’s surely obvious to even the most naive person that corruption is now endemic and is corroding the very machinery that controls our great old city.

With such an orgy of greed unleashed, and our skyline and neighbourhoods changing shape at bewildering speed before our eyes, the depressing reality is fast sinking in that ordinary Londoners have now been been reduced to the role of non-participants in their own lives.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:10:42 +0000

I wonder what sort of London these people want. I guess they have no vision of any goal except that of accumulating money and removing perceived obstacles. God help us all.

By: Neville Turner

Neville Turner — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:36:11 +0000

I remember those trees in Spitalfields and those adjoining the ground of Christchurch being my very first visual contact with anything green and actualy growing and changing with the seasons,so different from all the surroundings of concrete and tarmac roads.Spitalfields needs more trees and open green spaces not less.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:46:00 +0000

A word of caution here, someone will need to keep a constant watch on these trees otherwise the developers will just fell them, and then say “oops, sorry” afterwards. This is what happened here when developers wanted to remove some beautiful long established trees lining our old bypass, they claimed that they would be in their way whilst they built hideous new houses on the flood plain behind them. Permission was refused but they went ahead anyway. All that then happened was that nothing was done to punish them for such wanton destruction which had only benefitted them! Our trees were ornamental cherries which always looked lovely at this time of the year, we miss them.

I agree with the comment that the developers should be required to plant more trees, but greed and backhanders are such nowadays that I fear that it won’t happen. It is all very sad as trees add so much to urban environments, and I believe that they are essential for the mental wellbeing of those who have to live there.