Commonwealth Homes tree planting

John Fareham and John Abbott have arranged for funding to plant trees on the grassed area within the Commonwealth Homes site. The object of the exercise – apart, or course, from improving the view – is to reduce standing water from heavy rainfall. The recent heavy rain elsewhere in the country has of course concentrated many people’s minds on what might happen if future rainfall exceeded everybody’s worst expectations, and these trees, by having the arboricultural equivalent of a few drinks now and then, will lower the on-site standing water level and improve the chances of Commonwealth Homes being immune to future flood risks. We will of course let local residents know when the actual planting is to take place.