Ash tree with dieback - whose responsibility?

[Mark Bolam]

And they use the money to buy guns and give half to Israel and half to Palestine.

 

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[Mark Bolam]

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[AHPP]

Since this is about state records now:

 

I’m anecdotally aware that anyone presenting themselves to a council office in business hours can demand to see a TPO on paper for free. What’s the bit of law that compels councils to show you? 
 

I went looking for a similar right to inspect land reg documents for free the other day and came up wanting. 
 

Bastards. 

 

[daltontrees]

13 hours ago, AHPP said:

I’m anecdotally aware that anyone presenting themselves to a council office in business hours can demand to see a TPO on paper for free. What’s the bit of law that compels councils to show you? 

 

The Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012, Regulation 8(c)

[GarethM]

18 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

The Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012, Regulation 8(c)

These days it'll be on a computer screen, the charge is for hard copy.

 

Granted, you try speaking in person to someone in the planning department without taking up whistling in the wind, they rarely answer the phone 

[Pidgeonpost]

On 05/06/2025 at 16:57, Capetown said:

It might be worth going onto the Land Registry website where you can download a copy of the title plan for £7. 🙂

Thanks. This caused me to look back at the records from when we bought the house. There's a copy of the Land Registry document which clearly shows that the ditch, and therefore the tree, is outside our boundary. 

I'll still be treading gently but nothing is likely to happen this week. 

[Treewolf]

On 04/06/2025 at 06:38, Pidgeonpost said:

... The tree overhangs our double garage by quite a bit, and we're on the windward side unfortunately...

 

If you're on the windward side you should probably be fairly safe, but I imagine you meant "leeward" not windward.

 

Windward = upwind or the direction the wind is coming from. Leeward = downwind or where you don't want to be if you have a dodgy tree upwind. 

[kram]

While tree may be on neighbours land and his repsonsibilty, it does overhang the boundry and you are entiltled to maintain anything on your side, or cut right back, as you see fit. . It may be cheaper and easier than presenting him with a repair bill.

 

Do you have a few photos of the tree ? 

 

[Pidgeonpost]

11 hours ago, Treewolf said:

If you're on the windward side you should probably be fairly safe, but I imagine you meant "leeward" not windward.

 

Windward = upwind or the direction the wind is coming from. Leeward = downwind or where you don't want to be if you have a dodgy tree upwind. 

 

You're right of course! 

 

5 hours ago, kram said:

While tree may be on neighbours land and his repsonsibilty, it does overhang the boundry and you are entiltled to maintain anything on your side, or cut right back, as you see fit. . It may be cheaper and easier than presenting him with a repair bill.

 

Do you have a few photos of the tree ? 

 

I can't do anything towards it physically apart from pick up anything that drops off the trees. The trunks/stems that lean my way will probably need to be dismantled to prevent damage to my garage and fence. Those leaning toward the neighbour's field are less of a problem. I'm nearly 77 and buy firewood kiln dried these days but there could be a good supply of firewood there, and Ash splits nicely. 

[AHPP]

I'll take your word for it about stuff falling off but generally that doesn't look in horrendous health. If 0 is a perfectly healthy tree and 10 is utterly ashdiebacked to utter death, I'd say that's a 3 or 4. Would be interested to see how others appraise it.

Edited 15 minutes ago by AHPP