A beloved city centre tree in Coventry has had one of its limbs cut off. The Indian bean tree opposite Little Park Street Police Station and by former tobacconists Salt's has been a part of town's landscape for decades.

But the squat species, known for its beautifully sprawling branches, has been subject to work after one of the aforementioned limbs grew over a contentiously placed footpath. Coventry City Council submitted a request to undertake maintenance work on the tree earlier this year. This was later granted with standard conditions.

The Coventry Society, a civic group which campaigns and strives to protect and preserve the city, submitted an objection to the planning portal. They urged the council to instead remove a superfluous "short cut" footpath - made decades after the tre

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