\n Brian and June Taylor, who live in the Croftwood area of the town, expressed their concerns after a handful of the trees had grown taller than their home of 40 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n Some branches have stooped so much that they are now touching the ground, whilst one branch fell and blocked a section of a nearby road as a result of Storm Amy, which impacted parts of the UK on October 3.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are calling on Red Kite Community Housing to take action, as they believe their house, as well as they as individuals, \u2018won\u2019t stand a chance\u2019 if future adverse weather conditions were to return.\n<\/p>\n
\n They told the Free Press: \u201cThere is one tree that is hanging over my car and we have asked them to trim it as it\u2019s scratched my car and it\u2019s shed its leaves [on top of the vehicle].\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe easiest way to explain it is that we had the privacy of being Neighbourhood Watchers.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat wasn\u2019t our title, but we could see if anyone was coming around, but you can\u2019t now, as the tree branches are covering everything.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey [Red Kite] used to trim them and anything that would hang low, they would take [off].\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The couple then explained that the current situation is \u2018frustrating\u2019, as one stump was left due to a bee’s nest being discovered.\n<\/p>\n
\n They claimed that workers were tending to one tree \u2018a few years ago\u2019 but due to the large number of bees, they \u2018left\u2019 its remains, but erected a sign explaining why.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr and Mrs Taylor also said that they want the area \u2018tidying up\u2019, as well as sharing their worries if a storm were to come once more.\n<\/p>\n
\n They continued: \u201cI saw on the news not long ago that you shouldn\u2019t sit underneath these big trees because they could break or fall.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhen you see these trees, and with the strong winds, we wouldn\u2019t stand a chance if that comes down.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou do check to see if the trunk is wobbling if there are high winds.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe want the tree behind me trimmed as it has overgrown into my garden, and it would not be good if it came down on our car.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Julie Gamble-Kempe, Head of Communications and Brand at Red Kite Community Housing said: \u201cWe would like to reassure residents that a full inspection of trees in this area was carried out during the summer and the trees in question were not deemed to pose an immediate hazard.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHowever, we take all concerns seriously and encourage the private homeowner to contact us directly to discuss their concerns in more detail.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe remain committed to maintaining safe and pleasant environments for all our communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian and June Taylor, who live in the Croftwood area of the town, expressed their concerns after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190767","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\/190767","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=190767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}