Published on May 1, 2020 at 1:12 pm
Rossendale Council has issued tree preservation orders on three sites near Lumb.
The orders stop anyone from cutting down, topping, lopping, uprooting, wilfully damaging or wilfully destroying any of the trees specified without the consent of the Council.
The orders are:
At former Lumb Mill site
Lumb Wood
Lumb Cottages
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Published on February 12, 2019 at 2:48 pm
People are being urged to get permission before felling trees on their land, after prosecutions were brought by Rossendale Council against two men for removing trees with a value of around £22,000.
Land owner Matthew Cook appeared at Burnley Magistrates Court on Thursday, February 7 and pleaded guilty to felling 6 trees in a Cloughfold conservation area in August 2018.
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