http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Angry builder cut down protected 100-year-old tree" (Fife) en Fri, 22 May 2026 05:27:14 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188250 Tue, 12 May 2015 18:12:50 +0000 firedfromthecircus 188250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What's the bets his sequestration was a planned maneuver before he hit the court? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188248 Tue, 12 May 2015 16:24:16 +0000 Min 188248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gosh, well I am really glad he didn't get fined the £20k then, he might have had to sell the porshe! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188246 Tue, 12 May 2015 16:11:49 +0000 Baldcyclist 188246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, Mr Wilkie has certainly been the talk of the toon, after this appalling act of vandalism.</p> <p>He's a little miffed that the cooncil won't give him planning permission to build flats because of the tree, so he killed it, transferred the land to his daughter and got her to put in a planning application.... Which has been turned down (small mercy).</p> <p>He now puts banners up on the land every now and again complaining, and parks his van and porsche on it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188244 Tue, 12 May 2015 15:53:00 +0000 wingpig 188244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My parents' former neighbour, whose garden lacked trees, hacked at and whined about my parents' trees over the course of fifteen years, eventually securing an extremely begrudged request to fell a hundred-year-old beech, whose leaves were apparently causing great distress to his grass. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188243 Tue, 12 May 2015 15:47:46 +0000 kaputnik 188243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also, <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/islanders-fury-after-landing-barges-brought-in-to-idyllic-beach-site.125625294" rel="nofollow">http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/islanders-fury-after-landing-barges-brought-in-to-idyllic-beach-site.125625294</a></p> <p><em>ISLANDERS were left stunned when a landing barge invaded the tranquility of an idyllic Hebridean beach and began unloading heavy construction machinery.</p> <p>Residents have complained after rock pecker machines were driven across the pristine white sand at Gallanach and began channelling a route through the cliff face, adjacent to the beach.</p> <p>The land belongs to islander Neil Smith, a director of Gallanach Green Generation Limited, which has permission to build a 250ft 750kw wind turbine a short distance from the beach.</em></p> <p>Full story requires a subscription, but long and short of it was he wasn't allowed to do this but did it anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188240 Tue, 12 May 2015 15:45:38 +0000 Min 188240@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am sure being called outrageous and disgraceful a few times by the sheriff is punishment enough.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188239 Tue, 12 May 2015 15:43:55 +0000 sallyhinch 188239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I was a volunteer tree warden I discovered that there are people who hate (or fear) trees almost as much as other people hate bicycles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188237 Tue, 12 May 2015 15:18:58 +0000 ARobComp 188237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what an A-hole. </p> <p>Also it appears that editing or proof reading is now a thing of the past for the EEN... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14796#post-188234 Tue, 12 May 2015 14:49:24 +0000 chdot 188234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>An Edinburgh builder who hacked into 100-year-old protected “landmark” tree with a chainsaw and killing it in a fit of “frustration” after council chiefs refused to let him chop it down today avoided a massive fine.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/angry-builder-cut-down-protected-100-year-old-tree-1-3770495" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/angry-builder-cut-down-protected-100-year-old-tree-1-3770495</a> </p>