5 Cavendish Crescent North, Nottingham, NG7 1AY

We have a large lime tree in our garden we now wish to remove. We have reduced it on two occasions with permission: 2019 and this year in March. Sadly, this has not really helped and arguably made things worse as the tree has become more dense. This has led to even less light in the garden (it takes 90% of the light from 13:00 onwards) which negatively impacts the majority of the garden and lawn. We have struggled with aphids as it is now infested. The photos show the effect on the new patio in the space of a few weeks. We literally cannot put anything under it. The tree is on our neighbours (No. 7) border and so 40% goes on their side. They have the same problem and lose all of the morning/early afternoon sun. The tree has also become top heavy and so sways even more in the wind. Our neighbours asked us to remove it as they were genuinely fearful last year in the storms. They have small children. We did not want to remove it and have tried to manage it as you can see. However, we have lost and really feel there is no option other than to remove it. We have not come to that decision lightly. as set out above, our neighbours (No 7) are 100% supportive. As previously stated, we bough the house for the garden and trees. We will plant a new, but smaller, tree to replace it. We still have several trees including three very large trees so the character is not lost. This is the only lime and arguably the most unattractive of them all. We've also asked the Park Estate to plant another silver birch to the front of our house on the pavement outside. Clearly a different position but we hope this shows our desire to have trees and that this request is unusual and a one off.

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23/01397/PWC