Sheffield City Council Publishes Apology Letter Felling Healthy Trees

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Sheffield City Council has issued a four-page apology to residents after an inquiry found it had behaved dishonestly during a dispute over the felling of healthy trees in the city in a £2.2billion street improvement project. 
citizensbank.comOn March 6, the Sheffield Street Trees Inquiry Report by Sir Mark Lowcock found the council also misled the high court twice during the row - during which elderly residents were arrested and held for eight hours for trying to protect the trees.
In autumn 2016, council contractors dragged residents out of bed to move their cars at 4.45am to begin cutting down trees, before protesters arrived.

The scenes were compared to 'something you'd expect to see in 's Russia' by former Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg. 
The council issued an open apology to residents, particularly to those who campaigned against the unnecessary felling, for its 'actions during the street trees dispute'.
'The mistakes the Council made were set out very clearly by Sir Mark Lowcock, they should not have happened, and we apologise for them unreservedly,' the council wrote.
Protesters stand next to a rare Huntingdon Elm tree on Chelsea Road in Sheffield, which is said to have survived Dutch Elm Disease, in December 2018
Pictured is a sign on tree cut down by contractors in Rustlings Road, Sheffield, in November 2016
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On another occasion, the council applied for an injunction against Green member Alison Teal - one of its own councillors.

She was taken to court for breaching the injunction but found not guilty. 
The removal of trees, which became known locally as the 'chainsaw massacre', provoked scenes involving , van-loads of police and arrests in some of the city's leafiest middle-class suburbs.
The police came at five o'clock one Thursday morning, banging on doors to inform bleary-eyed homeowners that they needed to get out of bed and move their cars.
Residents who failed to comply were swiftly punished: within minutes, around ten vehicles were loaded on to lorries and towed away, past road blocks that now prevented access to either end of the street.
Inside this cordon, dissent was crushed.

Three people who took umbrage at the pre-dawn raid were slapped in handcuffs, including a thirtysomething man and two grandmothers in their early 70s.