Termination of Pollarding street trees.

[Mark Bolam]

I read that in Hort Week as well Richy, and Bristol are by no means the only one.

It's worrying.

 

 

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[Khriss]

Absolutely staggered by such pronouncements , the Liability under several Acts means this LA can be hung out to dry by any savvy litigant , I think the guy who tabled that idea should be sacked- K

[alliaria]

On 06/07/2017 at 18:45, sean said:

They are allaying fears that full tree inspection programmes will still be in place. How they are going to inspect the base of Lime trees and possible fruiting bodies with a few years Epi growth though is beyond me.

The tree officers are refusing to survey  trees where epicormic growth prevents basal inspection 

[Gary Prentice]

And so they should!

 

good on them.

[tree79]

On Tuesday, August 08, 2017 at 17:20, Khriss said:

Absolutely staggered by such pronouncements , the Liability under several Acts means this LA can be hung out to dry by any savvy litigant , I think the guy who tabled that idea should be sacked- K

Maybe PFI is the way forward,  the maintenance and liabilities would lie with them.

[Paul Barton]

15 hours ago, tree79 said:

Maybe PFI is the way forward,  the maintenance and liabilities would lie with them.

That's not working so well in Sheffield though is it?!

[Khriss]

I dunno Tree,  Amey are screwing up badly in Sheffield on that. It's basically Gov. Not releasing money and people not knowing or respecting tree value in the UK. I' m working on a .Gov. project and the ignorance is astonishing. K

[tree79]

11 hours ago, Paul Barton said:

That's not working so well in Sheffield though is it?!

Sheffield isn't the only PFI of course, seems to work else where. 

[tree79]

11 hours ago, Khriss said:

I dunno Tree,  Amey are screwing up badly in Sheffield on that. It's basically Gov. Not releasing money and people not knowing or respecting tree value in the UK. I' m working on a .Gov. project and the ignorance is astonishing.K

Your I would think the driving force is the LA. I'm sure if bristol LA  set out clear contractual terms PFI could work and beneficial long term.

[Khriss]

Most LAS don't even know their obligations, look at highway trees in most counties, I will stop my rant  K