{"id":189765,"date":"2025-10-10T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:44:06","slug":"streets-historic-trees-wrecked-by-recent-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189765\/","title":{"rendered":"Street&#8217;s historic trees wrecked by recent storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Highland Council said the trees were thought to be about 130 years old and have been protected by a preservation order since 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responsibility for the trees lies with the street&#8217;s residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council spokesperson said anyone who had information of dangerous trees on local authority land could email Tree.Enquiries@highland.gov.uk to provide information, including photographs and locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lochardil House was built in 1876 for Sir Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, a solicitor who became a town councillor and later MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He helped to lead work to develop Inverness&#8217;s Union Street, and also the city&#8217;s Drummond and Ballifeary areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He retired from politics in 1892 and died in Bournemouth in 1901.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His extensive collection of books on the history and culture of the Highlands was donated to Inverness Public Library in the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highland Council said the trees were thought to be about 130 years old and have been protected by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-189765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}