TPO prosecution

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/neighbours-fined-3000-pruning-15-11392106

[Gary Prentice]

"The tree has been significantly disfigured and stripped back. The amenity value of the tree to the street scene has been mullered."

 

Mullered -  if that's a technical term it's a new one on me.

I think that the council should have gone further. The low limb is just awful now and failure prone - right over the footpath and road.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I chuckled at the technical term too Gary, but I'd never trust the press to report accurately!

[Stubby]

The stumps with the torn bark from no undercut will die . I would be inclined to cut them back to the collar , ( with permission )

[Gary Prentice]

9 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I chuckled at the technical term too Gary, but I'd never trust the press to report accurately!

 

9 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

Me neither, but it sounds like something a few TOs I've met would say. Anyway, it's understandable and to the point.

I'll rephrase my earlier comment and say that I think they may have gone for the safe bet of wilful damage, rather than destroying the tree.

For all intents and purposes, the tree has lost any aesthetic value it originally had and now has a reduced SULE without some further remedial works - but to pursue the 'loss' issue would have been extremely difficult.

 

It must have needed those limbs hacking anyway, cos the highly qualified Doctor across the road said it was dangerous.

[Gary Prentice]

33 minutes ago, Stubby said:

The stumps with the torn bark from no undercut will die . I would be inclined to cut them back to the collar , ( with permission )

They'll be an exemption in a few years probably and permission wont be necessary.

[daltontrees]

Poole, Dorset, the same place as R v Davey when a guy was fined £150k in 2013 for felling a TPO'd pine. Ahh, the power of court decisions to deter others from offending!

 

Looks like Poole is the new capital of conifer mullering and tree-owner twattery.