Conservation Area - tricky one

[treebloke]

I have a client who runs a nursing home for people with mental health problems and yesterday a resident ate some berries from a Yew tree and was taken to hospital as a precaution, they are fine and sufferred no adverse effects.

 

Hindsight is a wonderfull thing and they should have acted before it happened but it has and now we have to sort it out.

 

I have been asked to fell the tree for obvious reasons but it is within a CA so a notification will have to be done which is not a problem. However, now the resident has learnt that eating the berries gets a trip out and lots of attention it is an issue so do you think I could cut back/trim the lower branches to prevent the resident reaching the branches under the dangerous exemption without risking the wrath of the local authority:confused1:.

[showoffsummer]

yeah that is a tricky one! In my view this might sound weird but could it not be classified as dangerous as what has already happened, dosent mean every yew tree is dangerous obviously but due to the location and what has already happened, I would think this could be a way to do it?

 

hope you find a solution.

 

cheers ciaran glyde

[Ian Leach]

Can't you do a temp fence around it ?? like the wooden ones you have on building sites, or an electric one would be funny

[David Goss]

Can't you do a temp fence around it ?? like the wooden ones you have on building sites, or an electric one would be funny

 

haha thats evil but you are right it would be funny:001_rolleyes:

[Peter]

Temporary fencing would probably be the TO's preferred solution.

 

Why not contact them and see what they say?

 

Only downside for you I can see is that they might suggest fencing permanently rather than felling the tree.

[skyhuck]

Could you remove all the berries??

[Andy Collins]

Recommend they only go outside in straight-jackets , i doubt very much any T/O would accept the reason as good enough to remove a yew. Fencing off the tree is a sensible option.

[Peter]

You don't need a reason to remove a tree in a CA.

[showoffsummer]

You don't need a reason to remove a tree in a CA.

 

you do if you remove it under dead dying and dangerous, which is what they are referring to.

 

cheers ciaran glyde

[High Scale]

How about indivdual tiny cages around each berry?