Flaws in TPO Plans

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One tree I recommended to remove actually failed at christmas, falling across a public footpath and then we were asked had we felled it, as a condition of the change of use was that felling didn't occur until the development started. The entire tree had uprooted!

 

The site I work on was originally heavily wooded and has spread gradually over the last 50yrs, putting up new buildings as required. A former CEO didn't hold with the inconvenience of TPOs, so he would wait until a weekend Autumn gale, take the keys to the JCB and when people came back in on Monday morning, the trees where he wanted to put up the next building would have mysteriously have fallen over in the strong winds.

 

Actions like these do end up making councils suspicious.

 

Alec

[Gary Prentice]

The site I work on was originally heavily wooded and has spread gradually over the last 50yrs, putting up new buildings as required. A former CEO didn't hold with the inconvenience of TPOs, so he would wait until a weekend Autumn gale, take the keys to the JCB and when people came back in on Monday morning, the trees where he wanted to put up the next building would have mysteriously have fallen over in the strong winds.

 

Actions like these do end up making councils suspicious.

 

Alec

 

I'm sure they do, but we'd done everything right, the architect had informed in and the root ball was out of the ground showing all the decayed roots. Their office is less than 5 miles away and the tree had been down for eight -ten days before we cleared it.

 

In your scenario a vigilant TO and enforcement officer really should have pursued the issue.