TREE FELLING TO HOUSE BRIDGE IS 'VANDALISM'

20 July 2005

A Swansea councillor has rapped the felling of trees to make way for the repositioning of the city's Slip Bridge in Mumbles Road. The landmark has been switched from Oystermouth Road and incorporated in the foreshore footpath near Singleton Park.

West Cross ward councillor Des Thomas said he was particularly upset several trees had been felled to accommodate the structure.

Mr Thomas said he did not like the result of the work.

He said: "To remove so many mature trees which were part of a beautiful avenue and to replace them with such an ugly old structure of no architectural merit is surely an act of environmental vandalism."