I AM writing in response to the headline 'New role for dead sycamore tree' in last week's Times Gazette.
I was incensed that the tree was cut down in the first place. The tree was no more dead than I am, unless the definition of dead has changed since I was born.
The tree was a magnificent tree which has stood in that position for as long as I have lived in Tavistock, being the fifth generation of our family.
The foliage was succulent and healthy on every branch and I have also been and looked since it was felled. The stump looks healthy but what a sight reduced to that! even if so-called clematis will be growing over it.
I have no objections to children, but if the tree was so dead I should think it is not worth trying to make seats out of it.
Of course it makes it all right to chop it down as it didn't cost the council anything.
It is about time people were allowed to use their common sense instead of always relying on these so-called experts, who tend to make situations worse; without them the world, not just Tavistock, would be a better place.
I expect there was a completely different reason for felling this tree which will become apparent in time.
Mrs Rosemary Pethick
86 Tavy Road
Greenbank