A Bolton woman is calling for a tree outside her home to be felled after it caused ‘floods’. Elizabeth Pearce has lived in her home on Springfield Gardens, Kearsley, for nine years. The 77-year-old said that she ‘loves trees’, but that the tree is ‘too close’ to her home, and that it has caused flooding on two occasions – leaving her home without running water in February and May.
Sign up to our newsletters to get the latest stories sent straight to your inbox. Despite asking for her housing agency, Bolton at Home, to remove the tree, Elizabeth has been told it will be staying as it is ‘healthy’. Elizabeth said: “I’m sat in the dark, I have to have a light on 24/7, and I have to heating on when other people don’t because the tree is so big, it’s keeping me in the dark.
“The tree is obviously more important than me.” She added: “They’ve been putting other pipes in, but it just moves further along each time – it’s lifting the paths up, the roots of the tree, it’s a sycamore and it’s massive, and it’s just keeping all light out of here. “I keep my bungalow as nice as possible, I look after things, and I am very upset because I like living on here, because of the people – we have a community centre – but the tree is the bane of my life.
“People in the community centre said they would sign a petition if need be to have the tree taken down.” Follow The Bolton News on Facebook , Instagram , X (Twitter) , and TikTok . A spokespers.