Planning app for tree fell do they check the tree?

[sasha.p]

Silly question its just i noticed an app posted along our street for a tree to be felled ''an ash'' the application states ...but the only thing is i noticed i cant see an ash in the garden of the adress only a mature beech tree but im not 100% sure there is not an ash tucked away somewhere and if it is it can only be small so why would it need planning?, do they go out and check the tree that is going to be felled?

[Old Mill Tree Care]

The tree officer will visit the tree as part of his process, he has to photograph it and complete his report.

 

If you couldn't see it, it may be small but protected by a conservation order, not TPO.

[Paul Barton]

I don't think there would be a public notice for a Conservation Area notification.

 

Does your LA have a tree officer? If not a wrongly identified tree may have slipped through the net.

[janey]

In answer to your question, yes, every tree removal that requires planning permission is checked. When all the initial paperwork is printed, the details, including the tree species, are taken word for word from the application. So if the applicant has got the species wrong, then the resident notification will be wrong. This may not be picked up until the inspection has taked place, as quite frequently two seperate dept's deal with TPO app's (Planning and/or Tree Section).

 

Or it may already have been felled and the notification left up by mistake...

[mattplace]

I don't think there would be a public notice for a Conservation Area notification.

 

 

My LA puts up public notices for conservation area applications but i know that other LA's don't :confused1:

[skyhuck]

My LA puts up public notices for conservation area applications but i know that other LA's don't :confused1:

 

One of mine does for major felling works, but not for pruning or conifer removals.

 

(Its a "notification", not an application)

[Paul Barton]

My LA puts up public notices for conservation area applications but i know that other LA's don't :confused1:

 

Fair enough, I guess each tree officer plays it differently.