Downing College Regent Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1DQ
Tree 196 Red Horse Chestnut - Remove - Replace with Sophora japonica - Reason: late mature tree in poor condition.Tree 200 Purple Norway Maple -Remove - Replace with Scots Pine - Reason: Poor specimen in low condition.Tree 244-246 Three late mature Cherries with trunk decay - Replace with Downy Oak (Quercus pubescens)Tree 271 Purple Norway Maple - Very poor specimen - Replace with Stone Pine.Trees 293 and 294 - An early matrue Field Maple and Common Lime - Replace with Beech further from retained trees - Reason to allow adjacent trees to develop healthy crown structure.Tree 303 Bird Cherry - Remove, no replacement - Reason to allow the development of the second Bird Cherry. (304)The works arise from the 2024 review of the College Tree Survey and form part of an overall management strategy to maintain and enhance the diversity and canopy cover of this important environment in central Cambridge.