Turkish hazel tree

The tree felling that has taken place at the Dorset House site was principally the removal of the diseased and decaying horse chestnut trees along the London Road frontage; this work was approved by the Council as part of the landscape proposals. These details include replacement of these trees with specimen Turkish hazels (this is a quite large tree species, not like our native small tree). The three chestnuts were showing increasing signs of ill health and weakness over the past few years and a large limb fell from one of them into the road in the summer; and although remedial tree surgery work was carried out at that time, we’re glad they were taken down before this recent period of high winds.  Development of the site has provided a timely opportunity to secure another element of new tree planting for the next generation of tree cover along this important arterial route into the city (to go along with other recent landscape improvements, i.e. replacement of the root-diseased beech trees that have been disappearing over many years now from the front of the Headington Prep school, with hornbeams; and entirely new plantings of lime trees along the frontage of the main Headington school site, which will hopefully produce an attractive avenue).