END OF LIFE BECKONS FOR UNLOVED AND UNWANTED WALTHAM PALM TREE

 

The Waltham palm tree - soon likely to be felled

It looks like curtains for this long-established palm tree in the garden of a house in All Saints Close, Waltham. 

North East Lincolnshire Council planners have this week approved an application for it to be felled.

The Grimsby News says: The tree is not native to the UK. Neither is it an especially attractive feature in a traditional English village. Nor is it believed to produce and annual crop of coconuts. Even so, it seems a shame for it be felled rather than dug up and transferred to somewhere else in the borough that might welcome it. Anyone got any suggestions for a potential location?