The Sheffield City Council have a lot of gall blaming anyone or anything for tree damage. When I lived in Sheffield for 5 months during a sabbatical in 2016, the Sheffield Council was marring the city by cutting down dozens if not hundreds of old trees over the objections of the land owners whose land they stood on (albeit in the easement for a sidewalk or pavement as the Brits would call it) and in the face of general public outcry against the program.