Ring barking

[Logsnstuff]

So if there's enough trees in a garden the exemption for the requirement of a felling licence isn't applicable ?

 

yep if there's enough trees they will class it a small woodland and you need a felling license. because of the location of what I was doing everything was tpo'd to a watercourse and I was felling on the boundary outside this area so we ringed everything in a morning so if anyone complained they couldn't do anything trees would still have to come down just bad luck the tree warden happened to overlook this garden.

[Gary Prentice]

I thinking someone was flexing their muscles on your situation. I did a lot of research on this last year due to a lot of felling in a big garden /grounds with lots of trees. I went to legal cases and every resource I could find. The only answer I could get was that a garden would be a wood if the FC said it was. Whether it could/would stand up in court would be down to the judge I suppose.

 

In my situation I found historic records showing that it had been a domestic residence since 1700, apart from several yrs as a hotel. We ensured that the change of use, to residential, had been passed before carting on. We also got the very wealthy client to sign that he would foot any legal costs if any problems arose.

[Logsnstuff]

I thinking someone was flexing their muscles on your situation. I did a lot of research on this last year due to a lot of felling in a big garden /grounds with lots of trees. I went to legal cases and every resource I could find. The only answer I could get was that a garden would be a wood if the FC said it was. Whether it could/would stand up in court would be down to the judge I suppose.

 

In my situation I found historic records showing that it had been a domestic residence since 1700, apart from several yrs as a hotel. We ensured that the change of use, to residential, had been passed before carting on. We also got the very wealthy client to sign that he would foot any legal costs if any problems arose.

 

well whether flexing muscles or not we had a letter from their legal dept in Edinburgh that it would be put forward for prosecution until I provided enough evidence that they had published themselves from the fc research that barking was a practice used in firewood production along with half a dozen other examples.

[Gary Prentice]

I can't see what relevance the end use of the timber would make, unless the plan was to kill the trees but harvest less than five cube per calendar quarter. Thereby not requiring a felling licence.