Restaurant owners who felled 80 trees for car park admit mistakes

The owners of a restaurant in South Lanarkshire have admitted they ‘made a mistake’ after felling dozens of trees for a car park extension.

The trees were cut down in the grounds of the Osprey in Strathaven Road, East Kilbride, which is currently being done up by the Birk family, who recently purchased the site.

Members of the local community are furious, with one pointing out that the woodland included an oak tree that was more than 100 years old.

In a statement posted on Facebook, the Birk family admitted it had been the ‘wrong decision’ to remove the trees, and said they were replanting young trees on the site and ‘bringing in a landscape architect’.

‘We’re sorry we got this wrong,’ they wrote.

‘We have to hold up our hands and say we made a mistake in clearing the wooded area in f