Mitchells & Butlers Retail (MBR), the group of restaurants that Toby Carvery has, was criticized for the decision to fall an old oak in the Whitewebbs Park on April 3.
The Initiax company defended the measure, saying that tree experts evaluated the oak as dying and a risk to the public.
However, contractors working for Tottenham Hotspur considered that the tree was a “good specimen” in a report presented to the Enfield Council last July, as part of the club’s plans to rebuild the nearby land.
According to the Guardian, contractors Tree and Woodland Company evaluated that the tree could be expected for another 50 years and reached conservation measures as a “high priority.”
The Spurs plans to build a women’s soccer training academy in a 17 -hectare land section in Whitewebs Park, near the tree, were approved in February.
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The proposal includes an access road, then changed to a path, from the training field to Toby Carvery, which crosses the site where the oak is located, according to the guardian.
MBR also has financial ties with the Spurs, since both are owned by the majority by the INIC investment company.
A Spursperson told The Guardian: “The tree and the decision to fall have no connection with the club, since the tree is out of our lease disappearance for our center and training academy of proposed women and girls.”
The club added that it was “ridiculous” to suggest that the tree was carved so that the earth is easier to develop.
MBR now faces legal actions of the Elocald’s owner on the felling of the tree.
The council leader, Cllr Ergin Erbil, told this document that Toby Carvery had “broken the terms of the lease” by not looking for advice on the condition of the tree.
He said that the destroyed tree showed “clear signs of life” and that the counter would do “everything that could” help the tree grow again.
The CEO of Mitchells & Butlers, Phil Urban, did not comment on the violation when this document approached.
However, in a letter to the residents, he said that he was “very unfortunate” for all the anger and the discomfort that the incident had caused.
