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Bit of advice please???

 

Looked at a job earlier, for a client who wants extend his house, the proposed extension takes the edge of the building up to about 3metres away from the base of a old tamarisk.

 

Do you think it needs prunning, leaving or felling?? The soil is clay (if that helps)

 

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Are you worried about the foundation strength or the damage to the tree? The former is a job for an engineer, who should be taking account of local conditions. In terms of damage to the tree, if it has been decided to build there within the root protection area (and no laws prevent it from happening) then ideally the foundation should be hand-dug within the RPA, but to some extent the tree will cop it anyway. The amount of damage that will do to the tree depends on lots of factors - difficult to assess it without seeing the site.

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