Hulme Developer gets a Roasting (Manchester)

Dig­ger trashed in action relat­ing to 25 mature trees being felled in Man­ches­ter

A prop­er­ty devel­op­er, who plans to build on the Loret­to Col­lege Play­ing Fields, got a vis­it from upset local peo­ple ear­ly on Tues­day 29th July. Around 25 mature trees on the play­ing fields have recent­ly been destroyed and a large JCB dig­ger has start­ed ground works.

Local peo­ple despair at the use­less politi­cians who get vot­ed in for 3–5 years, then enclose green spaces, close swim­ming baths and sell off schools and play­ing fields. These are all sold to pri­vate devel­op­ers, who are only there to make mon­ey for their share­hold­ers, not our local com­mu­ni­ty.

Peo­ple broke into the large dig­ger using cut­ters and doused the cab, elec­tron­ics and com­put­er in paraf­fin. Then stand­ing back, threw in the spark. Dam­age has been esti­mat­ed at up to £100,000.

Hope­ful­ly insur­ance com­pa­nies and con­trac­tors get the mes­sage. Devel­op­ers who destroy our com­mu­ni­ty green spaces, close foot­paths and kill our trees, are not wel­come.

It is sad that new dig­gers only take around a month to build, mature trees take a life time.

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There has been a group set up by local res­i­dents in response to this unex­pect­ed felling of mature trees.

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We are a col­lec­tive main­ly based in Hulme but with a net­work of organ­i­sa­tions sup­port­ing our cause from all over the city. Our aim is to halt to fur­ther expan­sion of the con­struc­tion in Bir­ley Fields as well as to activ­ley pro­tect our green spaces that we are sad­ly loos­ing by the day.
Through non-vio­lent, peace­ful but direct action we will pre­vail.
Ral­ly inter­est­ed peo­ple to this egroup and we can start the resis­tance to the destruc­tion of our area, stand up for the envi­ron­ment which we so des­per­at­ley need and prove that peo­ple pow­er is all we need to make a dif­fer­ence.