Felling licence question

[jjll]

Hi,

Does anyone know if a church is exempt from a felling licence in the same way a residential property is?

I will look it up, but wandered if anyone was up on this to save me time.

Cheers

[woody paul]

Christ how many trees are you going to fell. 

[westphalian]

More than 5m3 a quarter [emoji8]

[Justme]

Felling licence exemptions

Before making your application, please check the following list to find out if you need a felling licence. If your felling operation falls within an exempt category, you can start felling immediately.

Location

You do not need a licence to fell trees in:

• A garden
• An orchard
• A churchyard

Type of work

You do not need a licence to carry out the following activities:

• Lopping
• Topping
• Pruning
• Pollarding

Volume and diameter

You do not need a felling licence:

• to fell less than five cubic metres in a calendar quarter (note you cannot sell more than two cubic metres per calendar quarter)
• for trees that have the following diameters when measured 1.3 metres from the ground:
  • 8 cm or less
  • 10 cm or less, for thinnings
  • 15 cm or less, for cutting coppice

Other permissions

You do not need a licence if you have a valid permission, granted in accordance with planning permission (according to the Town and Country Planning Act).

Legal and statutory requirements

You do not need a licence if you need to fell trees:

• that are dangerous, or in order to prevent a nuisance, this exemption only applies if there is a real rather than perceived danger or nuisance as recognised in law. You may be required to provide evidence that the trees present a danger, for example through an accredited arborculturalist's report or photographic evidence. A diseased tree is not necessarily dangerous. You are strongly advised to contact us if you are considering felling tree(s) you consider dangerous. You may be prosecuted for illegal felling if it is shown that the tree(s) did not present a real or immediate danger or they did not present a nuisance
• to comply with an Act of Parliament
• to enable you to carry out work as a statutory undertaker
•  

[westphalian]

My farmer neighbour just says the wind blew it down[emoji6]

[jjll]

Thanks

[Mark Bolam]

Slight derail, but I have been asked to price this by a local church.

An architect has said the tree needs ‘trimming back or pollarding’ because it is ‘casting shade on the graves’.

 

I can’t see an obvious solution.

 

A light reduction won’t achieve anything, and a mullering will look awful for years.

 

Either way there will still be shadow on the graves!

I can’t believe an architect doesn’t understand basic physics!

 

I might just pass on it.

 

[woody paul]

As it's a yew been there along time by the size, nice prune would work well to retain its size. 

Architect's know nothing about trees is what I have found. 

[Mark Bolam]

That’s the problem Paul.

I think a nice prune would leave them whingeing that ‘we haven’t taken enough off, there are still shadows on the graves’.

[Adam M]

Can't have those dead people sitting in the shade. They'll have their lights on all day and it'll play merry hell with their vitamin d deficiency.