Tpo/CA checks

[jjll]

As standard procedure I check every address or site for tpo/ca but when it comes to development sites what's the best thing to do?

I still intend checking the address so I have full conformation that the work being carried out has been accepted by LPA.

Some developers that are applying for planning just give you the usual, get on with it and don't worry about it.

What's the best way to go about this without causing trouble with ongoing planning and causing trouble for myself?

In most cases when planning has been granted, I assume that trees are either tpo'd or felled and this is covered when it's been accepted?

Any comments on this would be helpful

 

Cheers

[detritus21]

I check in the same way I normally do. Just ask with regards to TPO's at a particular address/area. Very rarely do I say what works we will undertake particularly if the tree/trees aren't protected.

[bythamboy]

Consult LPA by quoting a post code only ( they usually cover multiple addresses ) , sorry can't remember the house number! if asked . Search for the planning application on line with the LPA and read all documents that go with it , if its a multi plot application then a arboricultural report may be required ( for any one to read ).

[Andy Clark]

A lot of it would depend on at what point in the process are you being involved.

 

A lot of developers and LPA's will possibly have dealt with this within the planning consent stage, in as far that the LPA willl, as part of the planning conditions, stipulated any site constraints for granting planning consent - such as imposing the condition for a BS 5837 survey, Arb and/or ecological impact assessments etc.

 

Ask the developer for copies of these, plus a copy of the consent, and familiarise yourself with what has happened/been imposed prior to your involvement. If the developer is evasive, or if you find that any conditions have been imposed and not met, then walk away.

 

At the end of the day, it's your neck on the line if you fell, lop, top, uproot etc a TPO'd tree, not the developers. So as long as you're happy that you've covered yourself, don't give a monkeys if the developer isn't happy.

 

"The only people who are mad at you for telling the truth, is those people who are living a lie".

 

Walking away from a job and loosing a couple of hundred/thousand, is better than £25k fine, plus costs, plus damages for loss of amenity asset, plus the stigma against your own reputation if it all goes wrong.

 

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