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A housing developer has been fined £10,000 for irreparably damaging two protected Redhill trees.Shanly Homes was landed with the bill at the town's magistrates' court on December 20 after entering a guilty plea to carrying out excavation works at the former Frenches Club in Frenches Road, which contravened a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) and left a protected yew tree and horse chestnut tree damaged.The firm was prosecuted by Reigate and Banstead Borough Council after one of the authority's...

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