Comments on: Digging Up the Oldest Tree In The East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pauline Poyntz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1146120 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:03:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1146120 This is really disheartening news. I am appalled that there is such little regard for a piece of living history. And one that has a so called protection order!
What Philstines these ‘developers’ must be’. Could the dear old tree not have become a focal point of any new planning for a site to be used by, and I imagine for, ‘PEOPLE’?
It cannot be too late surely?
Trees like this evoke feelings of peace and serenity and create an atmosphere of wellbeing around themselves .
Let’s hope someone can see ‘ A Bigger Picture’ and leave this old Mulberry exactly where it Stands today.

]]> By: Carolyn Badcock https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1146077 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:20:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1146077 “Imported from Persia by James I in the sixteenth century”…. These words scream so loudly to me and leave me thinking… What a disgusting act it would be if this tree is moved.

Could it not be possible for the unit which is built nearest to this tree and the unit looking down onto it, to be priced so the new owners pay at least one MILLION pounds more, just to have this treasure outside their window?!!!! Surely, that’s possible.

This treasure must stay!

Carolyn

]]> By: Lori https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145917 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:13:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145917 Like everyone else who has commented on this post I am shocked, saddened and disgusted to read about what is proposed for this lovely old building and Mulberry tree. How greedy developers are being permitted to destroy buildings of such quality and replace them with hideous monstrosities is a question that dominates my thoughts now when I am in London, of course I do know the answer and that is money,money money! Greed greed,greed! I cannot help but feel ashamed to be British when I see the wanton destruction of historic buildings and landmarks and the shocking levels of inequality and poverty that exists, its all wrong, very wrong .

]]> By: Cathy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145822 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:28:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145822 Tower Hamlets Council are just the utterly morally bankrupt. I honestly feel like their corporate strategy is to destroy anything left of London so foreign developers can build their glass shit all over it. Is there any way to do a Vote Of No Confidence in a Council? Is there any emergency order that can protect this tree?

I don’t go to London any more as I can’t bear what’s happened to it. There will be NOTHING left of the London that is depicted in film, book and theatre that spans over 500 years. Of course a City changes, it doesn’t look like ti did in Shakespeare’s time but the buildings we have that represent what most people think of as ‘London’ are still useful, serviceable and beautiful. To destroy it is just murder in my eyes.

🙁

]]> By: Sarah Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145819 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:58:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145819 This tree is protected. Protection means they cannot cut it down or remove it. This is outrageous.

]]> By: curvywitch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145817 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:40:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145817 Ah yes! Central government strips funding from local councils meaning they can no longer afford to retain the ecologists and archaeologists who previously commented on the environmental and built heritage issues that developers ignore in their planning applications and then they rewrite planning guidance in of a ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’ which basically means saying yes to developers. Enjoy more luxury flats and small gardened rabbit hutches being built on our green spaces and losing more of our vital natural habitats- welcome to New Britain: a place where the politicians don’t give a fuck.

]]> By: gary arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145811 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:39:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145811 A possible compromise would be to design the new block with a central courtyard around the tree
Gary

]]> By: Emma Hutchinson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145807 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:09:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145807 So what is the point of a tree preservation order then? Come to that, what is the point of listed building status? I have often been a patient at the London Chest Hospital and I am saddened by these reports.

]]> By: Melanie Gadsdon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145801 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:00:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145801 Words fail me. I am too angry. Surely where there a will there’s a way?

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/12/digging-up-the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145777 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:34:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156332#comment-1145777 This was a difficult and important post to read today.
Sadness, regret, incredulity, disgust — and the unsettling feeling that common sense
most certainly does NOT drive decisions and policies anymore.

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