How did this one get past the Planners???

[janey]

I saw this shocker in a fairly new carpark area at Syon Park (for any London locals) today. The new surface level has got to be nearly 1m above the previous ground level around this lime.

 

How long do you reckon it's going to last ?

[David Goss]

at least they never filled it in around the tree as well, but that will fill in naturally with dirt etc from the roads i suppose

[Chris Gagen]

shame it's not a willow, would've loved the extra water it's bound to fill up with, as is probably wont do it any favours at all!

[PhilBeech]

It got past the planners because most are useless and couldn't care less, I am getting very dis-enchanted with this industry at the moment.

 

Surveys should be the first port of call but are often the last.

 

An organic farm near us is having a new visitor centre built and have mullered all the trees.

[janey]

It got past the planners because most are useless and couldn't care less, I am getting very dis-enchanted with this industry at the moment.

 

Ditto.

 

The amount of times either myself or one of my colleagues has been asked for their comments, only to have them completely ignored has been countless.

 

How anyone could think it's ok to bury 90+% of this tree's root area and for it to then have any amount of SULE is beyound me

[arbaholic]

That looks really abnormal but kind of cool looking in a way, for now anyway until it turns into a pond

[redmoosefaction]

Sorry Guys n Gals...nothing to do with planners, these trees have always been in these pits for as long as I remember (40yrs- ish). If you note when you drive into the car park there is no change of level, never has been... now why are these trees so low... sorry ain't got a clue :-)

[Jesse]

This looks like it would not come under 5837 and is more likely to be highways and they have there own set of rules, but when it comes to trees they dont care, they never really bother with NJUG10

[janey]

Sorry Guys n Gals...nothing to do with planners, these trees have always been in these pits for as long as I remember (40yrs- ish). If you note when you drive into the car park there is no change of level, never has been... now why are these trees so low... sorry ain't got a clue :-)

 

Really???

 

The only times I have been to Syon in recent years have been when all the new construction was taking place or recently after.

 

It would never have occurred to me that the tree pit was already in situ before the new carpark was laid out. I have seen trees planted in shallow pits before to help collect and retain moisture in very dry conditions but never anything this extreme and the only way I interpreted it was to assume that it was a new construction.

 

Thanks for the insight. Planners - I apologise. This time (I'm sure you deserve the flack for many other tree travesties that you have passed previously ).

[Pommie]

BS 5837 is probably the most ignored document on the planet, as for the revision when that comes it ll become the new door stop in the Planning dept