Continuing Confusion Over Street Trees

Judging by social media, there is continuing confusion over street trees in Brent with people make perverse demands.

Firstly, there is a confusion of scale.  Each year, Brent loses 400 or so trees to causes such as storm damage, disease, old age, building works and road accidents.  This sounds like a lot until you realise that Brent has about 27,000 trees, so the loss is about one or two per cent a year.

The second is an idea that appears to have arisen that the Council should only use CIL money to replace them.  This makes no sense to me.  The Council has a regular budgets for repairing and maintaining pavements and carriageways, so why not other standard elements of the street infrastructure such as trees?