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Tree Damage In Essex After The Storm - Nearly Half The County’s Trees Felled Or Damaged

1987 , Essex (County)

Cat no. 76894

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Losses ranging from oaks to willow plantations providing cricket bats.

Scenes of trees on the ground a few weeks after the great storm during the night of 15–16 October 1987. Anglia TV reporter Lindsay Brooke says that 800,000 out of 1,800,000 trees in Essex were felled or damaged. Mature oaks still in the ground need specialist tree surgery to survive. In the Blackwater and Brain valleys where willows are grown for manufacture of cricket bats, up to 40% of the trees have been lost. It is reported that Councillors have been asked to release £200,000 to help individuals and businesses restore the countryside. The county Planning Committee has authorised 100% grants in cases of hardship. Funding is available through grants from the Countryside Commission, with priority given to the safeguarding of surviving trees. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Storm damage; Trees; Forestry; Oaks; Willows; Cricket bat industry

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Tree Damage In Essex After The Storm - Nearly Half The County’s Trees Felled Or Damaged

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