{"id":79915,"date":"2019-02-12T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/12\/sheffield-council-says-sorry-for-misleading-residents-over-tree-felling\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:57:46","slug":"sheffield-council-says-sorry-for-misleading-residents-over-tree-felling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=79915","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield council says sorry for misleading residents over tree felling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ombudsman finds authority \u2018deliberately set out not to reveal true advice\u2019 about alder treeSheffield council has apologised after a year-long independent investigation found it \u201cdeliberately\u201d misled residents over the city\u2019s street tree-felling programme.A resident, Sally Goldsmith, questioned the decision to remove an alder tree in Aldam Way, Totley, and was told by a council contractor in August 2017 that removal was recommended because of \u201cdecay within the stem\u201d. It added that an independent surveyor had \u201cconfirmed a decay pocket \u2026 as well as damage to the highway network\u201d. A similar email was sent to another complainant. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/feb\/12\/sheffield-apologises-for-misleading-tree-felling-programme\" target=\"_blank\">Sheffield council says sorry for misleading residents over tree felling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ombudsman finds authority \u2018deliberately set out not to reveal true advice\u2019 about alder treeSheffield council has apologised after a year-long independent investigation found it \u201cdeliberately\u201d misled residents over the city\u2019s street tree-felling programme.A resident, Sally Goldsmith, questioned the decision to remove an alder tree in Aldam Way, Totley, and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}