The Board of Los Estorninos Homeowners Association has sent us the communiqué below, the content of which we fully support:
The explanations given in communiqué 35 and other previous ones sent by the resort's administration in relation to the pruning and removal of trees at Hacienda Riquelme are not backed up by expert reports from technicians in the field.
It would be desirable for the HRGR Board to require that the felling of trees that could cause damage to the structure of buildings (foundations, walls, drainage, pipes, cables, etc.) must be accredited by means of a technical report signed by a competent professional who also certifies the impossibility of alternative treatment to felling.
There is no evidence that trees are causing damage to the structure of buildings. If this were the case, Murcia City Council would have made it a rule to prohibit the planting of trees within 7 metres of a building. There are no regulations in this respect. The streets of Murcia are full of trees very close to buildings.
The mere display of photographs of potentially dangerous trees is not a technical report and that is what STV has submitted: photographs.
Furthermore, we would like to emphasise that if the removal of the tree is the only viable alternative, it would be advisable to transplant the tree or to plant another adult tree of a better adapted species in another area close to the original one.
So far the trees that have died due to disease, lack of water, uprooted by the wind, felled, etc., have not been replaced. And they are not few in number. Moreover, it is possible that some of them would not have died if they had been more carefully tended. Drastic and massive pruning does not help much either.
It is important to be aware of the need to protect ecosystems. The tree has been the main element shaping the presence of nature in an urbanised area such as Hacienda Riquelme. It also performs regulating and purifying functions of an environmental nature and also offers shelter and protection to the fauna and flora. As a consequence, it guarantees an improvement in the quality of life of all the neighbours.Something is wrong with Hacienda Riquelme gardening (3)
NO to the logging (2)
NO to the logging
Happy Arbor Day!
Hacienda Riquelme Desert Resort
Los Estorninos Homeowners Association