Roman Lakes Leisure Park Lakes Road Mellor Stockport SK6 7HB
The Tree order is a blanket order and the trees are a combination of predominently crack willow and alder. They are too numerous to individually identify but a sketch plan of the areas concerned is attached. The area was once used for osier beds and is full of self seeded trees, predominantly crack willow, which have grown tall, thin and straight but are leaning at severe angles and shedding limbs and are starting to split and break up from the base. This has been further evidenced after the recent storms and wet weather and attached image of a crack willow which has fallen on an adjacent barn. We intend to make this fallen tree safe over the next few days. The trees create a wooded walk around the lake which visitors to the park are encouraged to stroll around. We are currently closed due to the covid situation but wish to make the site safe in the interim. We wish to retain the wooded aspect but for the safety of pedestrians onsite and our neighbours property remove any dead, dying and/ or dangerous trees and coppice/ reduce in height the remaining self seeded crack willow and alder and cut back growth overhanging the water. We intend to plant a hedge line along a section of our boundary with the adjacent farm to act as a screen and enhance habitat. It will comprise of mixed deciduous trees (including hawthorn, hornbeam, blackthorn, willow etc for a length of approximately 200 metres. TPO#: 10E - W15