The report states the two-storey detached home is due to be sold off. Since officers gave the application the go-ahead, ward and parish councillors as well as residents vehemently opposed the plans and urged officers to rethink their judgement. The campaign group have urged their followers and Datchet residents to write to the tree department, the head of planning, and the managing director of the council to demand the grand old tree to be saved.
The grand old tree in all its might According to their Facebook page, protesters have until May 26 to voice their objections. They wrote: “The tree may be implicated in subsidence issues that affect a neighbouring building; however, a tree expert has provided different remedies that could stabilise the building and preserve the tree.