Lobster Blogster

Lobster Blogster produced this image around three years ago,
when the nutjobs at Watford Borough Council refused to warn
people in the "green bin" scheme of the dangers of Japanese
Knotweed. Eventually the DEFRA stepped in and gave them a
ticking off. Fat lot of good it did though, because now we have
knotweed in a building site right opposite the town hall.

During the week the lobster learnt that a crazy planning
permission has gone through, whereby over a hundred
"protected" trees are to be cut down. Clearly the value of a
Tree Protection Order is precisely zero, when you have a
town run by Liberal Democrats.

The Leader of the Lib Dems in Watford, and wife of the
mayor, runs a blog where he spouts facile drivel week
in week out. Perhaps the lobster needs to add an new
section in his "Top Blogs" bit forbloggers that emit
meaningless twaddle whilst developers go around chopping
down beautiful trees.
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UPDATE 1.
The Communities and Local Government website have a
publication called Tree Preservation Orders: A Guide to the
Law and Good Practice. It is available online in both Word and
PDF formats.

Watford Borough Council's guidance on TPO can
be found here.

Етикети: Lib Dems, Nascot ward, tree vandals, WBC

Lobster Blogster has been asked by Sally Ivins to post some campaign material which relates to developers greedily grabbing gardens and other open space for profit, in her locality, which is the Nascot ward of central Watford.





Click on either image to enlarge and read, or to print off your own copies. The two images could be printed back to back to make an A5 leaflet, or side-by-side as one side of an A4 sheet.




Apologies to Sally for the delay in posting here. LB's scanner is broken, and all efforts to photograph the images failed. Fortunately Cllr. Ken assisted and supplied good images to post on the marine crustacean's blog...

Етикети: developers, Nascot ward, Sally