Sixteen trees in the Boulevard will be felled and replaced with twice as many.
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Around half the cherry trees in Weston town centre pose an unacceptable risk to the public and will be removed this spring.
A survey by North Somerset Council tree officers found 16 of the older trees which line the Boulevard are suffering from decay and fungal infections and need to be replaced.
The council will remove the trees after they have flowered this spring and replace them with up to twice as many next year.
Most of the existing cherry trees along the Boulevard were planted in the 1960s and 70s. The council has been monitoring them due to their age and officers have had to remove five over the past five years due to the risk they posed.
Cllr John Crockford-Hawley.
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North Somerset Council has had to find new ways to keep vital services running during the pandemic - with meetings held online and staff and councillors working from home.
While many of the council’s operating procedures will resume when we emerge from the pandemic, some changes could be here to stay.
John Crockford-Hawley, councillor for Weston Hillside, spoke to the Mercury about the ups and downs of homeworking and how Weston has the opportunity to reinvent itself after the pandemic.
He said: “One of the things that I have found working at home, is that you don’t get the essential camaraderie that you would get going into the office and bouncing ideas off one another.