Permission???

[jose]

They do seem to be jobs worths.

 

I ran out of time today but by the sound of the owner they are going to be adament anyway so i will have to delay the job.

 

Next time i will know better!

 

Cheers guys

[Paul Jenks]

We do lots of work for OCC Highways and in built up areas they ask us not to use any noisy machinery before 0800. If we have to do jobs by traffic lights, say, we do it nice and early with handsaws and stack the debris for later.

 

With the tree officer, sometimes they don't have all the info, sometimes they are power crazed, sometimes they're right. A detached branch is inherently dangerous and you can legally climb the tree to remove it and any other branches that are broken, pruning back to a suitable point. What you shouldn't do is prune any live growth without giving notification.

 

How you inform the TO is down to your relationship with them and how assertive you want to be/appear. It's usually good to be polite

[orang utah]

sounds like the arb officer is being akward to be honest it should really be you talking to the council i had the same kind of job last week a crack willow that had moved from vertical to 50% over a garden play area called the arb officer explained the situation emailed a photo had permission next day if your checking every tree before working on it you should build up a rapour with them and they will begin to trust you good luck