'Tree Brides' anguish as work finally begins on Harbourside flats

Women who ‘married’ a group of 70 trees on a caravan site by Bristol’s famous Floating Harbour say they have been left devastated after their requests to say goodbye to their ‘partners’ were ignored, as workmen began to fell them to make way for a new housing development.

Work has begun to prepare the site of the Baltic Wharf Caravan Club park next to The Cottage on the south side of the Floating Harbour, with the council-owned site now being cleared for 166 new homes - 40 per cent of which will be classed as affordable. The council’s housing development arm Goram Homes announced it had finally struck a deal with housebuilder The Hill Group today (Octr 13) with work beginning on the same day.

The ‘joint venture’ deal

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