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posted by [personal profile] panik at 07:47pm on 08/05/2008 under ,
I went for a walk in the woods today; these woods, with the deer and the woodpeckers and just filled with life; the ones someone compared to Middle Earth. Guess what? They're gone, or, at least, a huge chunk of them; clear-felled; gone. It looks like a war-zone up there with mud and deep gouged caterpillar tracks and just a whole load of nothing.

Geez. I'm numb and angry and just so stunned. At least I feel ready to move now, I've been putting it off, putting it off - now I just want to sell the house and get out as soon as I can.

I've fired off a bunch of enraged emails but I feel so fucking helpless. Gods, I'm so depressed. I really didn't think Chorley Borough Council were capable of sinking any lower in my estimation. I was wrong. Despicable bunch of c****
Mood:: 'crushed' crushed
location: Withnell
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OMFG-that is horrible

posted by [identity profile] belladonnaf66.livejournal.com at 07:16pm on 08/05/2008
I can't even imagine. And as much as I hate it, at least they post notices here before they clearcut an entire ecosystem...and here, if a tree is over 50 years old you need to have city council permission to cut it down, first, and to their credit they usually tell builders to suck it up and build around them.

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posted by [identity profile] andeincascade.livejournal.com at 07:22pm on 08/05/2008
Oh, Gilly, that makes me sick. What's going to be left after we throw away all these irreplacable places?
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posted by [identity profile] sassyinkpen.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 08/05/2008
Oh my god....I'm just horrified. Those are so beautiful.


I know that stunned and numb and angry feeling - I felt it a couple years ago when my son called to tell us he'd just gotten home from school and seen that the road crew had cut down ALL the trees on our corner. I was livid. I knew some needed to be trimmed back for visibility, but they just shaved the land.
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posted by [identity profile] karieflybabe.livejournal.com at 07:45pm on 08/05/2008
(Hugs you tightly)

There are no words...
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 08/05/2008


Oh babe! I'm looking out the window at 'my' woods, and thinking how I would feel if they were bulldozed - I'd want off the planet at the very least. I have no words - except I'm so so sorry. Time to move on love. ::hugs you long and hard::

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posted by [identity profile] betagoddess.livejournal.com at 07:57pm on 08/05/2008

OMIGOD that is horrible! How COULD they? What a complete bunch of a**holes! Damn!

I don't know how anyone could even give permission for that to happen! What shortsightedness! Damn again! =<{

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posted by [identity profile] tx-cronopio.livejournal.com at 07:59pm on 08/05/2008
So horrible! I, too, have no words -- I'm so sorry.
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posted by [identity profile] shiredancer.livejournal.com at 08:15pm on 08/05/2008
Aw, Gilly -- that is awful beyond compare. How truly shocking, and demoralizing, and utterly sad. *Hugs*
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posted by [identity profile] janedavitt.livejournal.com at 08:35pm on 08/05/2008
oh, God, that's awful! I really do feel for you. Such a waste and it can never grown back as it was.
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posted by [identity profile] snycock.livejournal.com at 08:56pm on 08/05/2008
Aw, hon, I'm so sorry. What an awful thing, and such an awful way to find out, too - to be just totally shocked like that and just find them all gone. ::hugs::
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posted by [identity profile] miwahni.livejournal.com at 09:44pm on 08/05/2008
Oh no! I am sorry to hear that, they were lovely. You must feel devastated. Isn't there such a thing as a tree preservation order in your area? We can't cut down a single tree without jumping through endless hoops, justifying etc. {{ hugs }}
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