Knowle relocation project: planting lots of trees in mitigation for felling existing trees

The blurb from the developers for their promised 'retirement village' at Knowle conveys leafy vistas:

See how Knowle plans have ‘evolved’ at exhibition - Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald

Rejected: EDDC refuses care facility plans for Sidmouth HQ site - Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald

However, in order to build the above, now undergoing an appeal process
Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: PegasusLife grounds of appeal

... several mature trees will have to be felled.

As an observer notes:
They have lodged an appeal and part of that is to claim they are doing a lot for the environment by planting lots of trees but this is only in mitigation for felling existing trees. 

From studying the appeal documents, it appears that the developers would like to fell a line of Monterey Pines beside the car park:

Meanwhile...

One of the District Council's website banners takes us to their 'Moving and Improving' pages 
- which also includes a close-up of the magnificent Magnolia granddiflora growing right beside the existing building 
- and this will disappear when the main building is demolished:

East Devon.gov.uk

Further photographs show the impressive tree in its context:

Retirement village plan for East Devon Council's Knowle HQ rejected | Devon Live

Claims EDDC is relocating from Sidmouth ‘at any cost’ - Breaking news & sport in East Devon | East Devon24
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