T1 Cherry - fell to ground level - on the communal lawn, roots are causing significant damage to the main footpath in front of the row of houses nearby, the utilities which service those houses under the path and the homeowners are concerned about actual damage to the properties themselves. The footpath needs to be dug up and replaced and the utilities will need inspecting once a channel has been dug out. However, due to the shallow nature of Cherry roots there is no way that the offending roots can be severed to the side of the path and a root barrier installed before work on the path commences, for example, without causing irreversible damage to the tree or making it extremely hazardous indeed and replace with two trees will be planted on the communal lawn, further away from the line of houses, as replacements for the loss. T2 Purple Plum - fell to ground level. This tree has significant decay throughout - decay in compression wood. Fungal fruiting bodies are evident in and around many old pruning wounds up the main stem and on all secondary stems.- A replacement will be planted for the loss. T3 Silver birch - fell to ground level. This tree is growing on the frontage of a row of houses along Manor Way. A small cavity was recently noticed up the main stem just before crown break into two co-dominant secondary stems. Upon inspection it turns out that the entire section of primary stem from crown break to approx. two feet below is completely hollow. Less than an inch of sapwood remains. Large historic pruning wounds have not healed and decay has advanced significantly. One of the co-dominant secondary stems, which is leaning across the main path towards the row of houses has several large fruiting bodies growing from it, underneath what looks like a large historic pruning or tear-out wound. A replacement will be planted for the loss.

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