{"id":132051,"date":"2025-11-10T11:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:47:16","slug":"trees-infected-with-ash-dieback-felled-along-cumbrian-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132051\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees infected with ash dieback felled along Cumbrian roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Trees growing near roads are to be cut down in response to the spread of ash dieback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Cumberland Council has found several areas where ash trees have been infected with the disease and need maintenance or removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ash dieback poses a safety risk to drivers as it causes the trees to become brittle, meaning they can fall or shatter without warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The council said felling trees was a &#8220;last resort&#8221; and it only removed those which were &#8220;dead, dying, diseased or dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ash trees are a dominant species along roadsides in Cumbria, meaning the council has had to survey its network of A, B and C roads to check they are safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Those living in areas where infected trees need to be removed will receive letters detailing how the removal will be carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Last year, National Highways announced it was <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0vjlzdr7x3o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planning to cut down between 12,000 and 15,000 trees<\/a> to protect motorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This work included felling around the M6 and the A590 in Cumbria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trees growing near roads are to be cut down in response to the spread of ash dieback. Cumberland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-132051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}