Branch landed on car during Sunday’s storms Falmouth

People living at the end of Fawkener Close in Falmouth say the incident is the latest in a series of branch falls in the last few years.

The homes in the close are surrounded by trees with some huge oak tree branches stretching right over their homes both front and back.

The branch was removed by Cormac (Image: Paul Armstrong)

In one earlier incident a large branch fell onto the house at the left hand side of the terrace badly damaging the house of Mark Stevenson which resulted into a shed being destroyed and the roof so badly damaged it had to be replaced.

On another occasion a branch narrowly missed two cars parked in the road and nearly hit the house owned by Radnor Acton-Page and his wife.

And to add insult to injury a branch landed on Mr Stevenson’s car on Sunday during the heavy rains and strong rain.

The branches are very close to the resident's homes (Image: Paul Armstrong)

On Monday morning Cormac removed the branch from Mr Stevenson’s car which luckily had been protected from serious damage by the roof rack.

He told the Packet that the row of houses has been plagued by branches coming down on their homes “We’re worried about more trees coming down and causing more damage and injury to somebody else,” he said. “They should do something about it and chop it back.”

He said the council had come out to do a report and recommendations were made to cut branches back and cut down a dead tree but after they cut down the wrong trees all work had stopped, and nothing had been done since.

The branches tower over the resident's homes (Image: Paul Armstrong)

He said he’d been onto the council about it which had told them to get a surveyor’s report which they would have to pay for which they couldn’t afford it.

“The trees are coming down more and more, it’s scary my wife couldn’t sleep last night because she was just listening to the trees, scared they were going to come down.”

Another resident Lana Butterly told the Packet that the trees were overlapping everything blocking out the light.

She said a whole tree had come down outside her house block her front door so she couldn’t get out.

“It’s just unnecessary she said All they need to do is lop them back a little bit. Something’s going to happen at the moment, even a fatality.”

Cornwall Council were contacted for a response on Monday but have not yet come back with one despite a further request being put into the council on Tuesday.