BBC Documentary about leylandii

[Amelanchier]

You've got balls Tony! I'm impressed, what were the circumstances? Stand alone trees or part of a mixed group?

 

Various settings really, some have been isolated elements in a urban landscape (i.e., the only green thing in a 5 mile radius), with an eye on securing future replanting and some have been included as part of a wider Order picking up everything in a garden. But those are just moves in "planning chess", the ones that are probably most relevant to the OPs query have been open grown individuals planted along property frontages. Well formed, healthy, visually impressive in terms of scale and mass, good future contribution... box after box ticked for TPO. Green is king.

 

Thanks for getting back to me. How come you TPOd leylandii. I would love to hear the circumstances.

 

Well, as above really. A good example would be three large mature healthy trees at risk on a development site (as a result of a planning application to replace them with a inappropriately large dwelling IIRC) - see the attached picture below. They were a key component of the major views up and down the public highway and framed the entrance to the existing property. It shouldn't matter that they are the much maligned but misused Leyland Cypress - my love is all embracing and I welcome all species under my banner of protection. Anyway the duty imposed on LPA's to protect trees under section 197 of the TCPA doesn't recognise stigma!

 

Have you seen the specimens at Bedgebury Pinetum? Phenomenal hybrid vigour and they're still growing...

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/6464-bedgebury-pinetum.html#post117677

 

Don't I know it - I've just put in an application to fell some that you TPO'd Tony but they have been refused...

 

Oh those old things. I don't know what I was thinking - horrible trees.

[High Scale]

We just looked at 48 odd leylandaii that surround a factory unit, they are maybe forty foot in height and the owner has been told my his LA if he doesn't fell them then they, (The LA) will take him to court to force him to do it and impose all relevent costs on him, they did give him an option of a very heavy reduction but he would rather see them gone.

 

The complaints about the trees come from the houses behind the unit that had originally been much further from the factory unit boundary until they were knocked down and rebuilt closer to the trees.

 

We also have 250 meters of leylandaii to take out in the summer on another job, oh what fun.

[Tommy_B]

I once had a neighbour offer to give us a fair ammount of money if we could poison his neighbour's trees that we had spent all morning reducing and make it look like an accident, as it was cutting out the light in his garden. (and before anyone says anything, I turned it down!!)

[RobRainford]

had a fellow come over to me and kev on saturday, 'would you be prepared, for a high fee, to come and cut down my neighbours leylandii' it had already been established it was nowhere near a boundary and in a back garden, i referred him to kiv who said a rather confident no!

[LisaLandmark]

Thanks so much everyone for posting your stories. It is great and giving us lots of ideas. It does seem to be true that the leylandii polarises opinion! Keep the stories coming please!!

[Steve Bullman]

Will Arbtalk be getting a mention in your documentary then Lisa?

[eggsarascal]

Will Arbtalk be getting a mention in your documentary then Lisa?

 

I would of thought that only fair:thumbup:

[Tree Man Tom]

I can picture it now... "We contatced users of the Arbtalk forum for there views on leylandii (other forums are available)"

[Kev Stephenson]

This was a fun one, row of 42 trees to come out. The golden was TPO'd and the TO initially refused it's removal but said I could remove the other 41 (no protection). I argued the point that it would look shocking and I eventually got the right result. It took removing the others and submitting photos!!

 

Not sure how the TPO on only 1 came about, I can only assume it was a replant TPO and the person who planted it stuck it in the middle of a hedge row.

[button1803]

ive lost count how many times a neighbour has said, ''can you just cut that conifer'' while your here....

 

i dont get no sun light....

 

you know the usual.....