As mentioned at the Parish Meeting AGM last month, North Yorkshire Council had advised us a short time ago that the tree outside 2 South Cote/Garth Cottage was diseased and needed to be felled. I’ve now heard further from the Council that a second opinion has been obtained from one of their in-house tree experts. The view now is that the condition of the tree does not warrant cutting it down at this stage, but the Council will inspect it again in May next year and give us an update on its condition.