Too close?

[Amelanchier]

Just dug these out from my camera card - meant to post them a while ago!

 

The tree is a mature beech with no apparent ill effects (historic or otherwise) from the siting of a building on 50% of its RPA. (Theres a car park immediatley adjacent as well and the tree is in a raised bed thats only about 15-20 square metres!)

 

Just goes to show what trees will put up with. Probably not best to try it too often though!

[Ian150482]

Wow, suprised thats not damaged or lifted foundations. Or cracked windows.

[David Humphries]

Nce post Tony.

 

Who said Man and Tree can't live in Harmony

 

 

 

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[treequip]

Don’t worry a large arboricultural consultancy, instructed by a loss adjuster will be along shortly to tell you it might be possibly implicated in a subsidence claim three doors away and would you mind awfully felling it.

 

Andy

[sanny]

recipe for disaster there lucky not to have caused damage to the building

nice pics

[treewizard]

could possiblly cause damage to the building now, when the roots start to rot off could cause subsidence

[Amelanchier]

Nce post Tony.

 

Who said Man and Tree can't live in Harmony

 

There's always that conflict in my mind David. Nature is far more resilient than we give it credit for - but those of us who seek to protect and enhance it tend to keep that a secret. The idea being that we think that certain people can't be trusted or will abuse that knowledge.

 

I certainly wouldn't have let this building be situated that close.

 

BTW I reckon the building to have been constructed in at least the early eighties...

[brewx1]

Nce post Tony.

 

Who said Man and Tree can't live in Harmony

 

 

 

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Man and tree can live in harmony....

 

Unless that is insurance man and tree, or mortgage man and tree!

[David Humphries]

In London the LTOA have put together " the Joint Mitigaton Protocol"

 

The jist being........

" It seeks to establish best practice in the processing and investigation of tree root induced building damage, benchmarking time scales for responses and standards of evidence"

 

This is a big step in the right direction, and will cut down on unnessecary removals.

 

 

http://www.ltoa.org.uk/jmp.htm

 

 

Can you spot the D in the picture yet

 

 

 

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