Resident calls for cemetery tree removal

A PERMANENT tree protection order (TPO) has been slapped on a lime on the edge of a Tavistock cemetery after a resident called for its removal because he said it was blocking out the sky.

- ALISON STEPHENSON Local Democracy Reporter

Graham Coker said the tree at New Cemetery in Plymouth Road was too close to his property and took away his right to light and made his house harder to insure.

He complained about aphids, bird excrement and falling leaves.

He said at a meeting of West Devon Borough Council's development management and licensing committee that things had become a little contentious between him and the town council, who own the cemetery, after he had a line of fir trees removed along the boundary.