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Ginkgo is dioecious, get a male plant and yuo'll never have the smell issue.

You only need to notify things that otherwise would be an offence - topping, lopping, uprooting, wilful damage or wilful destruction. If you are satisfied that all these potential offences will be avoided, there's nothing to notify.

Meripilus giganteus for sure. Commonly decays the underside of structural roots. You have the possibility of whole tree failure there. You really ought to have that looked at properly, but going by the pics it's just a matter of time, unless by some fluke it is perfectly balanced and not exposed to winds. Getting it reduced or taken down while it is still climbable could reduce the costs of an otherwise tricky removal. Can't necessarily assume your insurance woudl cover you if it wiped out your shed, or worse.

could be a long while before this is a problem. Dryad Saddle rarely a cause ot panic on Sycamore, it's pretty slow moving. In your situation, it would be possble to bring forward occlusion of the wound by CAREFULLY chiseling off the excess deadwood of the stub to get it as close as possible to the advancing woundwood. Just around the edges.

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The Council should be reminded as many times as necessary that it's not an 'application' (it's a notification) and it doesn't need to be 'validated', there is in fact no statutory validation requirement or process. Likewise it can't be refused. But quite rightly a Council should say if it considers that the notification does not meet the requirements. An important distinction between CA notifications and TPO applications is that the latter must give reasons for the proposed works, but tehr is no statutory requirement for CA notices to give reasons. Peronally as a matter of educating the Council and avoiding delays for my customer or client I'd tell the Council that, and be clear that they're not getting any supporting report, and that the 6 weeks clock is running down. CAs are an imposition on landowners and the tree protection is precautionary only. Notification is meant to be easy and free.

I'd put money on it being Sorbus or one of those newfangled Aria/Torminalis efforts. No way it's Acer, Tilia or Betula

There is nothing specific about this in legislation, and I am not aware of any case law. The LPA has 2 roles. It has to decide if the trees are important enough to be protected, this can be relevant to trees on and off site. If important they should be retained and protected. BS5837 etc blah blah. What is questionable is whether it should be protecting what amounts to encroachment and possible common law nuisance. It also has to decide whether the CA tree is so important for the amenity of the area that it should be TPOd. The reason is that generally a planning application replaces the need for a separate CA notification or TPO application. So it could TPO the tree and prevent any development that would harm it. This could exceed the RPA, which is really just a temporary made up thing that only preserves about 1/4 of the roots. Remember, CAs don't imply the trees are important. It's jsut a precaution to allow the LPA to decide if they are in the context of any threat to their remvoal or harm.

You're right, but if it's not about trees I'm just not interested. There are a million other places I can be passively subjected to polarised vitriolic drivel.

There are a couple of threads where a few people are being unbelievably rude to each other, churning out some fairly vile stuff. I simply ignore these and concentrate on the bits of Arbtalk that are about trees. SO simple.

It's not clear Are you saying 'development is taking PLACE on the adjacent land'? Are both sides of the boundary in a CA?

Have a look at the attached chart of hybrids. Not even a complete list. Dirty stop-outs, the lot of them. willow hybrids.pdf

Looks pure goat. But it's a messy genus.

Almost 100% it's goat willow (salix caprea)

British Mycological Society has recently been discussing various Phaeolus finds on Sorbus. Incidentally, Sorbus intermedia has recently been reclassified as Scandosorbus intermedia.