The old convent site in Dumbarton’s West End which is earmarked for housing.
Dear Jonathan,
The tree lovers of Dumbarton are keeping a close watch on this site at Clerkhill in the West End to ensure that the trees there are safe from Lumberjacks and tree choppers like yourself.
In today’s copy of The Irish Times you’ll find a glossy, double-sided poster, in English and Irish to help you identify the most common trees in Ireland (and Scotland).
These are the ones you must instruct your officers at West Dunbartonshire Council to save.
The council’s record in this regard isn’t great when you think of what happened to the beautiful hawthorn hedge at the New Cemetery in Garshake Road or the trees on the site where houses are being built at the old County Buildings near there.
Garshake Road, where the hawthorn hedge was cut down on council orders.
Because you are one of those people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, we would like to inform you that he Irish Times is offering you an exclusive chance to win a bespoke pen, crafted from burled elm and some goodies from the Tree Council of Ireland. To be in with a chance to win click here.
The Trees of Ireland poster is produced in partnership with the Tree Council of Ireland and with kind support from Gas Networks Ireland.
Pick up your copy of Trees of Ireland in The Irish Times today and see irishtimes.com/treesofireland for more detailed information on each tree. We hope you enjoy getting out and about this summer and identifying as many trees as you can.
But please leave you axe and chainsaw in the house.
Best wishes, AND
Bill Heaney, Editor, publisher of The Dumbarton Democrat
Some of the trees that faced the chop at the old council offices site at Garshake.
Ach you can plant new trees.
What the bigger concern should be is how the road system goingbto cope with all 5hese new houses being built. The A82 is well over capacity and no longer fit for purpose or even safe.
So come on Jonathan McColl and councillor’s colleague’s all, instead of vacuous press releases about planting a few dandelions or park rangers having jollies on an expensive save the planet electric boat, how about some bread and butter statements about how you are going to deal with the infrastructure deficiencies.
C’mon now, speak up, surely the cat hasn’t got your tongues.
And are the Flying Geese being removed at Stoneymollan roundabout in a prelude to changing the roundabout to facilitate the many many cars that will flood into Balloch once Flamingo Land is approved by the SNP Government.
God help the village with Lomond Shores AND the Flamingo Land Development. It’ll be like one of the Disney Land Florida car parks.