Hillside Estate Logs Out

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ad to see the old trees on the Hillside green get the chop this morning.

Apparently it’s all about end of life care, with disease and storm damage increasing the risk of falling trees in the area.

People in the estate got a notice through their letterboxes last Thursday, informing them that Hillside’s residents association had voted unanimously in November to cut down all 11 big trees on the green.

And one Hillside resident got more than a note through his letterbox this morning, when one of the trees being felled decided to fall the wrong way (the moment captured on video here) – and tried to flatten the lad’s shiny, defenseless Defender.

Not one of Djouce Tree Care Service’s finer moments, but hey, no one was hurt.

Upon being questioned in the Hillside WhatsApp group, a representative of the association stated that these Poplar trees are ‘not suitable for residential estates’, and that the new planting – of rowan, birch, alder and hazel trees – will be.

The plan being to replant saplings in the autumn.

Going to be a while before they fill that gap in the view though, or handle a chubby kid on a swing…