Last month the district council came up with a plan to remove another area of woodland in Birklands from a preservation order. This was successfully overturned by Lib Dem Cllrs at a planning meeting who argued that the reasons for protecting the trees had not changes and they were still worthy of protection. They persuaded the committee that rather than removing this area from the order officers should come back to the mext meeting with further proposals to protect the trees from any possible county council felling.