Save the Tree of the Park Pavillion Cafe Devonport
Save the Tree of the Park Pavillion Cafe Devonport
The Issue
When the Park Pavilion Café was first built in Devonport Park back in 2010, this tree, an impressive 200+ year old Monterey Pine tree, which is currently protected by a Tree Preservation Order (TPO), was considered so important to the park that the café was literally built around it, the front decking/seating area designed wholly to accommodate its structure as a feature, and blend it into the finished design in a way that was both aesthetically pleasing, and contributory to the final build.
Over the years though, the council has seen fit on a number of occasions to excessively prune its lower branches, the latest massive reduction to its impressively out-sweeping arm having taken place a year or so ago, after someones apparently bumped their head.
FYI - The Monterey Pine is already considered an endangered species on IUCN 3.1, and at risk (G1) at Natureserve.
However, on April 30th 2025, the council has decided that it will be chopping this tree down because it occassionally drops branches in high winds, and 'Apparently' it is dead, even though it is still producing pine cones and spruce needles, and bleeding copious amounts of resinous and aromatic sap from its previously cut limbs. It is also visited by many Birds and Squirrels in the area, and is a favourite amongst the many Human visitors that like to sit and enjoy a coffee beneath its impressive shade and countenance.
To cut this tree down now after hundreds of years standing, would be an absolute sacrilege and an afront to the initial considerations made around it when the café was first built. This will also be happening at a time when Plymouth City Council has made quite the name for itself as not being particularly friendly, or considerate of the natural arboreal environment of the city, given its prior treatment of the trees of Armada Way, Woolwell, Derriford, Lambhay Hill, Weston Mill, and Forder Valley.
Please join me in voicing your concern, by signing this petition to stop this act of arboreal terrorism.
We don't have much time to act before the chainsaws arrive....
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The Issue
When the Park Pavilion Café was first built in Devonport Park back in 2010, this tree, an impressive 200+ year old Monterey Pine tree, which is currently protected by a Tree Preservation Order (TPO), was considered so important to the park that the café was literally built around it, the front decking/seating area designed wholly to accommodate its structure as a feature, and blend it into the finished design in a way that was both aesthetically pleasing, and contributory to the final build.
Over the years though, the council has seen fit on a number of occasions to excessively prune its lower branches, the latest massive reduction to its impressively out-sweeping arm having taken place a year or so ago, after someones apparently bumped their head.
FYI - The Monterey Pine is already considered an endangered species on IUCN 3.1, and at risk (G1) at Natureserve.
However, on April 30th 2025, the council has decided that it will be chopping this tree down because it occassionally drops branches in high winds, and 'Apparently' it is dead, even though it is still producing pine cones and spruce needles, and bleeding copious amounts of resinous and aromatic sap from its previously cut limbs. It is also visited by many Birds and Squirrels in the area, and is a favourite amongst the many Human visitors that like to sit and enjoy a coffee beneath its impressive shade and countenance.
To cut this tree down now after hundreds of years standing, would be an absolute sacrilege and an afront to the initial considerations made around it when the café was first built. This will also be happening at a time when Plymouth City Council has made quite the name for itself as not being particularly friendly, or considerate of the natural arboreal environment of the city, given its prior treatment of the trees of Armada Way, Woolwell, Derriford, Lambhay Hill, Weston Mill, and Forder Valley.
Please join me in voicing your concern, by signing this petition to stop this act of arboreal terrorism.
We don't have much time to act before the chainsaws arrive....
1,183
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Petition created on 23 March 2025