Anger flares over plans to chop down a 600-year-old tree... because its roots are damaging a 20-year-old house The 50ft tree, is last remaining from ancient wood that stood near Peterborough Contractors were blocked from felling it last month by resident Richard Elmer Inurers ruled that damage caused by the tree required £75,000 of repairs
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Anger has flared over plans to cut down a 600-year-old oak tree because its roots are damaging a house built 20 years ago.
The 50ft tree, the last remaining from an ancient wood that stood near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, has been blamed for cracks in the home.
Peterborough City Council revoked a preservation order and ruled that the oak can be chopped down.