BS5837 Group Category

[daltontrees]

See this BS Cascade applied universally now for local planning applications - is there any counterbalancing BS standard for assessing ecological/biodiversity/wildlife value of trees?

 

There is a standard for assessing ecological/biodiversity/wildlife value. Is it specific to trees? I don't think it is. Does it give any means of weighing up BS5837 categorisation against thiose values? Definitely not. It's back to that thread that Kevin mentioned in which cynicism was rife about the new bat standard.

 

Since then I have worked on af ew bat tree climbng inspections with ecologists. They are roundly unimpressed with the new standard and are largely ignoring it, preferring the BCT guidance. And I have yet to meet an arb consultant who is invoking it for tree categorisation. There is a hole in the guidance that could accommodate any number of bats. I have my own way of dealing with it in reports which in short is to say that 8596 cannot be applied to categorisations.