Pressure to stop subsidence claims grows

Canopy members have come together to criticise insurance companies that unnecessarily blame and fell mature trees in subsidence claims.

You can read the article in the Guardian by Kevin Rawlinson here. It features Linda and Scott Taylor Cantrill from Exmouth, who successfully saved their 200 year old oak after a 3 year battle with an insurer, Gio Iozzi from the Haringey Tree Protectors who are fighting to save a 120 London Plane and members of Save Billi Oaks, a group from Billingshurst in West Sussex, determined to save 2 mature oak trees.

Caroline Campbell, who works for the Woodland Trust said, "Mature and veteran trees are often removed before causation is proven, and in many cases, where alternative engineering or root management solutions could resolve the problem while retaining the tree. The general approach from many insurers remains risk-averse, defaulting to removal as the quickest of cheapest option".