The poplars at Lime Tree Avenue in Uckfield needed to be felled after one crashed across the entrance to Uckfield Community College earlier this year.
The remaining stumps of the trees will be ground out but, as poplars are notorious for spreading shoots, the regrowth has been sprayed to stop new shoots sprouting as the land is prepared for re-planting with lime trees.
Phlorum donated both time and resources to carry out the work undertaken by Phlorum Consultant, Aidan Mackay (pictured).

Lime Aid Chairman, Dr Martyn Stenning, said he was very grateful for their help.
‘This is a very helpful donation to the efforts of Lime Aid to make the avenue safe, beautiful and well preserved for future generations,’ said Dr Stenning. ‘We would like to publicly thank Phlorum for this essential help which will prevent further unsafe poplars from growing up in the avenue.’

Dr Paul Beckett, director of Phlorum, which has offices at Falmer and in Manchester and operates nationwide, said: ‘We were very pleased to get involved with Lime Aid – we strongly believe in preserving historic environmental features.
‘We have sprayed with Roundup ProBiactive, a non-residual herbicide that will not affect the growth of the limes which are going to be planted.
‘We will be following the progress of Lime Aid and hope efforts are successful to restore this important feature.’

Great fun though it is for many people it must be remembered that fireworks cause pollution. The bright colours and sound effects that we see when a firework is released produces a huge variety of chemicals. Fireworks emit light, heat and sound energy along with carbon dioxide and other gases and residues. With gunpowder as the main component, sulphur compounds are emitted along with small amounts of particulates, metal oxides and organic compounds (including minute amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins and furans). Consequently, at this time of year and particularly on 5th November, it can be assumed that pollution levels will be higher than average.

The notion of ‘Sustainability’ is an idea that we at Phlorum have always subscribed to; our proposed research partnership with the University of Brighton exhibits our enthusiasm to become involved in the field. As of now, we are proud to unveil a new and improved ‘Sustainability and Energy Efficiency’ consultancy service. With Richard’s experience as a BREEAM assessor, and Anthony fresh from completing MSc Sustainability of the Built Environment at the afore-mentioned University, we are delighted to be able to offer services relating to waste management, energy assessment, renewable energy feasibility/strategy, sustainable design guidance and sustainability appraisals.

In order to both promote our fresh and innovative service and to formulate local ties, we are offering our expertise to architects, developers and planners in the Sussex region first and foremost, before taking the service nationwide, and, let’s hope, internationally.