{"id":2444826,"date":"2026-06-04T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2444826"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:32:12","slug":"why-are-7000-people-fighting-to-save-royal-lime-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-are-7000-people-fighting-to-save-royal-lime-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are 7,000 people fighting to save &#8216;royal&#8217; lime trees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said no other option was &#8220;financially viable&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our priority is protecting hundreds of Walton-le-Dale homes and businesses from the devastating effects of flooding and felling trees is always our last resort,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t carry out construction from within the River Ribble due to the risk of causing environmental harm to the river, its wildlife, and the surrounding land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Relocating the works further inland is also not feasible, as the road carries essential utilities and regionally significant communications cables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guy Shackleton, of Save the Royal Limes Action Group, said it believed there were alternatives that would &#8220;protect the trees and the ecological benefit of them&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added it would also prevent 18 months of &#8220;complete road closure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shackleton said: &#8220;We have engaged&#8230; with consultant civil engineers and they have a strong belief there are alternatives that yes, could well incur costs but would prevent the destruction and removal of the trees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EA said no other option was &#8220;financially viable&#8221;. &#8220;Our priority is protecting hundreds of Walton-le-Dale homes and businesses from the devastating effects of flooding and felling trees is always our last resort,&#8221; it said. &#8220;We can&#8217;t carry out construction from within the River Ribble due to the risk of causing environmental harm to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Why-are-7000-people-fighting-to-save-royal-lime-trees.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444828,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444826\/revisions\/2444828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}