Trees in the wrong place!

Many people demand the removal of trees because they shade their houses and the autumn leaves are a nuisance. I love trees and think we should put up with the inconvenience in return for their beauty and environmental value but more will be doomed because councils have stopped sweeping the streets.
Pavements here are half-covered with weeds, leaves and litter and the drain gratings are blocked. Where a tree leans over the road the pavements are impassable with sodden leaves.
Will we ever get back any of the council services we have lost?

I live in a conservation area and I'm pleased to say that the tree hating newbies who have recently moved in haven't been able to cut down their trees.

I accept that if the roots undermine a property then they have to be cut down but otherwise leave them alone.

There was a programme on the Beeb a while ago that followed an oak over the course of a year. They estimated that a million creatures lived in or on the tree.

Just read your link Durhamjen. Perhaps on this occasion the Hs2 is in the wrong place

hs2 is just wrong. my friends house is in the wrong plcae too and will be demolished.

In my garden
3 pear trees
3 apple trees
1 mulberry
2 plum
1 beech
1 rowan
1 oak grown from an acorn by darling daughter, meant to be a bonsai but left out accidentally in the garden one year and now about 14 feet high.
Also a hedge of native trees.
I also have a fig, a eucalyptus and an apple on my front patio to say nothing of numerous limes, lemons etc

I thing I'm doing enough for trees.

Oh I forgot my acer which was magnificent this Autumn