Save The Ashley Down Oak

Successful campaign to stop Bristol City Council's attempts to fell our beloved 120-year-old holm oak tree. 🌳 💚 🌳

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

Following work done by @Geobearglobal to the Ashley Down Oak, we now hope that our tree is saved for good!

Read our statement: https://t.co/4QZXJX60Fx

[The Bristol Activist @BristolActivist]

Good news for @AshleyDownOak as recent developments may mean the Ashley Down Oak doesn't need to be felled, nearly two years after the council first tried.
https://t.co/goSyEzSET4

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

Glad to be included! Community based direct action truly does get the goods

[Freedom Press @Freedom_Paper]

A roundup of radical activism in the UK in 2021 https://t.co/EuKHc9Q8f7

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

@bristol_pip @BristolCouncil @BristolTreeFora Our statement on the matter:
https://t.co/PU4sCakjoc

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

🌳 Bristol City Council contractors have removed the Ashley Down Oak treehouse today after concerns were raised by person/s following recent storms.

Full statement here:
https://t.co/PU4sCa2IwE

[The Bristol Activist @BristolActivist]

7 months since Marvin Rees' promise to save the Ashley Down oak, campaigners @AshleyDownOak are still waiting on transparency and clarity from the Council about why the tree was meant to be felled in the first place.
Read about the ongoing saga:
https://t.co/GrGLWQLbfM

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

• That BCC provides greater protection for Bristol’s natural resources and builds a more sustainable, collaborative approach to planning and development in the city.

5/5

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

We've written to Cllr Nicola Beech asking for transparent action from Bristol City Council (BCC), in regard to the Ashley Down Oak and other threatened trees and habitats across the city.

(Link to the letter in full: https://t.co/zPGV9itERr)

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[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

• For a Tree Protection Order to be placed on the Ashley Down Oak.

• That the Council re-joins the Joint Mitigation Protocol as a way of cooperatively resolving issues involving trees linked to subsidence claims in the future.

4/5

[Our Air, Our City @OurAirOurCity]

Bristol is facing a health, justice & environmental crisis. Our air is toxic and is kills hundreds a year.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Clean air is possible. New year is for new chances, so we'll be partying against pollution.

Support us ⬇️
https://t.co/W7Devf4IHt

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

Very sad to the Bristol City Council trying to fell these trees for being 'anti-social'.

We need to protect our mature urban trees wherever we can. These trees must not be felled.

[Bristol Live @BristolLive]

One neighbour described the decision to chop them down as a "travesty" https://t.co/hP2quglOqM

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

A mature tree can cool a city as well as ten air conditioning units.

We should be cherishing mature trees everywhere - they are a precious resource.

[Our Air, Our City @OurAirOurCity]

We're here at Lawrence Hill Health Centre for #CleanAirDay

Sit and chat with us on our Our Air, Our City sofa to learn about dirty air in #Bristol and how you can take action.
#OurAirOurCity #CleanAirNow #CleanAir4Bristol

[Save The Ashley Down Oak @AshleyDownOak]

Great news that six anti-HS2 activists have had the case against them dismissed! They were arrested defending the Jones Hill ancient woodland!

Much love to them and @Hs2Rebellion @stophs2 💚

https://t.co/DQjgUjgYRi

[Jen Smith @jensmithbristol]

I’ve been around Hotwells and the Harbourside today. Here’s some photos of where planned development on the site of the Caravan Club could result in the loss of just under 80 trees.

[The Bristol Cable @TheBristolCable]

Campaigners have won a battle to save a 120-year-old oak tree that Bristol City Council condemned as doomed just four months ago.

https://t.co/IztTZw5Jjx

[Bristol Tree Forum 🍃💚🍃 @BristolTreeFora]

After @MarvinJRees confirming that the Ashley Down Oak has been reprieved, we have sent this email asking for more information about the pollarding/pruning proposals and to see why the tree has been implicated as the cause of the nearby subsidence.
FYI @AshleyDownOak @BirdgirlUK

[The Bristol Activist @BristolActivist]

Campaigners victorious in battle to save the Ashley Down Oak after u-turn announcement from Marvin Rees today. No acknowledgment from Rees of the work of campaigners on this issue.
Read the full story here:
https://t.co/7Wnf4R4YRQ
@AshleyDownOak