TPO trees missing

[organic guy]

My son has just bought some land which has trees on the boundary of the village. He was being hassled by a villager that a tree was unsafe so got a surgeon to investigate. Long story short, tree is now cut down. 

Turns out tree had a TPO. Should the tree surgeon have investigated? Should solicitors have flagged this up in sales contracts?

It also appears he has 11 trees with TPO but can only find 7!  What should he do?

[doobin]

57 minutes ago, organic guy said:

My son has just bought some land which has trees on the boundary of the village. He was being hassled by a villager that a tree was unsafe so got a surgeon to investigate. Long story short, tree is now cut down. 

Turns out tree had a TPO. Should the tree surgeon have investigated? Should solicitors have flagged this up in sales contracts?

It also appears he has 11 trees with TPO but can only find 7!  What should he do?

Lawyer up....

[manco]

yes the tree surgeon should have investigated

yes the sales contract probably should have picked it up

if the felled tree was dead or dangerous you can have it under exemption

the missing trees probably were felled under similar exemptions

probably worth having a local tree surgeon help dig into where the missing ones went and straighten it up with the council sharpish so they dont hit you with it at a later date.