TPO Advice - Sweet Chesnut

[Nick Watkins]

Can I ask for some advice please?

 

There is a very old, very large, sweet chestnut adjacent to my mothers house. According to the new neighbour who's land it sits on, it's dead and needs to be removed as it represents a risk.

 

Clearly you can see how dead it is in the pictures below Some of the tree runs over my mothers fence line, she would like it reduced to avoid picking up husks in what is reality a small garden. The tree has a TPO on it but we have just gained permission to reduce the crown by 40% however the new neighbour is pushing to have this cut down and removed!!

 

I have my suspicions that they wish to do this to then gain planning to erect a house, then sell off the land with the planning permission. My question is therefore, with a TPO, what are the chances of the new neighbours reversing the TPO and having this wonderful old tree removed?

 

 

 

Thanks for your help.

[RobRainford]

Depending how the tree officer is, I wouldnt think he would allow such a free to come out. A 40% reduction will be good for it, as long as the tree is vital which it seems to be.

 

The neighbour just seems a tree hater. He'd miss it and all the wildlife it supports if it goes!

[Hodge]

The tree looks bloody awful, it has been butchered in the past and looks like it has had a fire next to it in the past, there is severe wounding on the trunk. It's never gonna look nice.

[Tom10]

Doesnt look very dead to me either!.... lol

 

But it does look rubbish - butchered in the past. I think with individual cases like this I would contact the local T/O for advice.

 

Good luck.

[born2trot]

Its not dead . Its very alive

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

I would push for the tree to be removed (Ill do it ) and make sure the T/O insists of a replacement of same species

 

PS its far from dead, Ugly but not Dead

[Jesse]

Can I ask for some advice please?

 

There is a very old, very large, sweet chestnut adjacent to my mothers house. According to the new neighbour who's land it sits on, it's dead and needs to be removed as it represents a risk.

 

Clearly you can see how dead it is in the pictures below Some of the tree runs over my mothers fence line, she would like it reduced to avoid picking up husks in what is reality a small garden. The tree has a TPO on it but we have just gained permission to reduce the crown by 40% however the new neighbour is pushing to have this cut down and removed!!

 

I have my suspicions that they wish to do this to then gain planning to erect a house, then sell off the land with the planning permission. My question is therefore, with a TPO, what are the chances of the new neighbours reversing the TPO and having this wonderful old tree removed?

 

 

 

Thanks for your help.

The fact that the tree is TPO'd does not mean planing permission can not be obtained , If an application was submitted and approved it would over ride the Order( TPO) if the tree was considered to be a constraint on the proposal .

[CTS]

Personally it doesn't provide any amenity value looking at a hacked tree half of it is dead and to be fair what is a 40% reduction going to do to the aesthetics of it?

[born2trot]

Yeh replace it with a nice conforming little sorbus . Woohoo !!

[agg221]

It's hard to see, but that tree looks like it has effectively been pollarded. If so, there may be an option to tidy up the cut locations and have it maintained as a pollard. It would required regular work but keep it permanently manageable and should be able to form a decent shape from it. I'd be talking to David Humphries or Tony (Hamadryad) about that though.

 

Alec