John, cut your tree down. I would rather have a nice area for my kids and a clean car too. It is your house, kids and car... and rightly so that you care for all of those far more than a tree in an inconvenient place!! If it was me then i would plant a new one in a convenient location just to offset any guilt that i had about chopping it down, not to please swampy and the rest of those tree hugging loonies!
If you don't know what type of tree it is how can you say whether it is rare?
Assuming you can see plenty of other trees that look the same all over the place how come you don't know what it is? I'm no tree expert but I reckon I could have a pretty good stab at identifying Britain's common tree species. Can you describe it's leaves, bark and general shape so that we can have a stab identifying it (or provide a photo). I'm just curious to know what a generic tree looks like.
As for wasps just ignore them. It won't hurt your kids to get stung a couple of times and it will teach them some respect for wasps. If you want to cut down the number of wasps try removing any ivy climbing up the tree, remove old wood and any dead animals (they make their nests from old wood, eat the animals, and hide in the ivy).
As for your car, buy a pressure washer. I can't honestly believe that it is as bad as you are making out. Our car is parked under 4 trees and the only time we have problems is during the week or so pollen is produced and in autumn when all the leaves drop off.
Graham
John Wils> this tree isn't a rare tree..... just a normal everyday tree
So if your neighbours don't like what's growing in your garden or object to not having enough space for their kids to play because your house is in the way it's OK for them to get out the shears or bulldozer?
If you read the first post in this thread you will notice that the tree isn't on the OP's land. It isn't his tree to cut down. Thus he has to ask permission first and his council may say no.
"Vera" wrote | Don't forget the playgrounds - swings, roundabouts, big | rocking horses for 10 kids - nice large areas of concrete | under each piece of equipment to protect the surrounding | grass...
And the roundabouts had holes in where the planks were rotten and you could put your feet through and push ...
Oh yes - and a running board all around so you could crouch down and lean right out (one hand on the bar) to drop lolly sticks for the kid behind you to try and pick up.
It's odd - my sister broke her collar bone when she fell off the swing once and my parents never even thought of suing. They just told her off for standing up!
But in truth, we did go to the playground very frequently, the nearest was about a mile away and we walked there.
Half a mile down the road from we we now live is a super duper all singing all dancing playground with bells on, funded by European money I believe. It's beautiful, innovative, brightly painted, lots of seats for parents, litter bins, safe and very varied equipment and restricted access so that motor cycling yoof can't get in. It's a triumph of modern design.
No, I've passed it at all times of day and night. I've never even seen a dog in it. Nor even litter. Perhaps it's in some kind of impermeable invisible barrier ...
LOL! Keep going and you'll get there. And it's not bad either :-)
Ours has been a great success since we have started adding to it, we have a grant application in at the moment for more equipment. We have gone from the ubiquitous Wicksteed swings, slide and roundabout to wooden bridges, monkey climbs, balancing poles and the like plus a BMX area. We have attracted more children down there than ever before and its working well, we do have a few problems but I normally stamp them in the bud before they develop.
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