Pollinating a Discovery after chopping down its neighbouring pollination partner

[FB.]

What's paying a lot? More than £30?

Different people have different views.
About £15-20 plus postage seems to be a fairly typical price from reputable nurseries.
Discount stores often have trees for £5-10 at the end of winter, but the variety choice is limited and as the trees are unwanted trees from nurseries, they sometimes aren't correctly labelled because they just want rid of them and don't care.
I saw some in a discount store a couple of years ago and it was clear that although they had the same label (e.g. Discovery, rootstock M26, mature size up to 2.5m) some of the batch had interstems and some didn't so they clearly should not have had the same label.
Having said that, I've been 'done' by one or two mail-order nurseries making random substitutions without notifying me (even though I explicitly asked them to check that they had in stock what I wanted); I only found out later that I'd been conned when the tree didn't match the label!
Sometimes mis-labelling happens too.

[rosiepumpkin]

I assume it couldn't be moved? There is space at the other end of the plot.

Thank you for all your help.

[FB.]

I assume it couldn't be moved? There is space at the other end of the plot.

Thank you for all your help.

There would be a high risk that it would die.
It might survive if the roots were carefully excavated and the canopy trimmed back considerably - but it would be a whole weekend's work to save a tree that's very common and could easily be replaced for £5-10.