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Oak trees are such an important element of our natural environment. We understand that we are in a climate crisis and that mature trees are essential in carbon capture. In addition each tree provides important habitat
for thousands of insects. Further more trees actually increase the value of developments. It is therefore extremely difficult to understand why the Local Planning Authority would ever authorise the removal of there highly valuable natural assets.
Don't these developers realise that money won't matter when the planets destroyed. Why do they feel the need to destroy everything that's beautiful.
Those trees are beautiful and don't deserve to be cut down, find a way to work round them and keep them.
They are home to so much of our wildlife.
Work with the environment not against it.
Oaks are not just trees, they are homes for a myriad of other wild creatures that help sustain our planet and therefore us. Cutting them down just for a path is absolute VANDALISM and should not even be considered. Find another place for the path!
We should be planting more trees not felling healthy trees. Oak trees are a vital part of the ecosystem. We all know there has been a decline in insects which will have an effect on bird numbers. The ecosystem is balanced but it doesn't take much to destroy it. Please don't fell these oaks and contribute to the climate emergency.
Oak trees are some of the most important in the UK. They support many hundreds of species and as they mature this number only increases. Unlike many trees mature oaks are often split and hollow. This is perfectly normal and the trees are still healthy and strong. Oaks take hundreds of years to mature. Once old oaks are gone so is the important habitat they provide.
My grandparents can barely get an appointment at any of their surgeries as it is (they keep being offered callbacks which they are unable to access). Closing Higham is going to make it worse.
Not only will this affect the existing residents of the village, not everyone has access to a car and public transport is not fit for purpose between Higham, Cliffe, Cliffe Woods and Wainscott. How about the new housing developments at Cliffe Woods and Cliffe? the planning that has gone in for 800 houses at Wainscott, a further 250 at Cliffe Woods and 63 in Cliffe? All these residents will be using a reduced number of surgeries. They need to expand not close down.
Around 75% of village residents are registered to this practice and instead of them being able to walk a short distance to their local surgery, closing Higham Surgery would mean a 45 minute journey on two buses...if they're lucky. We must not take away this convenient, respected and (mostly importantly) necessary village service.
Higham is a community that needs a local gp, the others are simply too hard to get to for those that can not or do not drive. I've lived in Higham for nearly 5 years and I've noticed it has lots of older residents due to the amount of bungalows and retirement home many of these will be even more unable to get medical help. In a time where we have more people than available doctors and getting an appointment is already impossible we need more doctors surgeries not less, the other surgeries will not cope with another town to service.