daltontrees

No, that's hydrogen cyanide.

Pretty rude. Certainly not helpful. Like you don't understand why people ask for help from fellow professionals.

Sycamore Eutypella parasitica? Bit of a long shot in the UK?

I have noted that in my attempts to transplant it from a seaside location to my guerilla garden it hasn't liked being near hawthorn, pyracantha or even in long grass/ribwort. It gets dosed with road salt, somehow I thought it would like it.

It's tough stuff, cut it back and it'll be fine, quite hard to get rid of if anything.

Four points. Firstly house boats are not being 'targeted', they are being added to the controls that exist for buildings. Secondly they are only controlled when moored in a Smoke Control Area. Thirdly, it doesn't threaten 'British' boat dwellers, it only applies to England. Fourthly, it is only an offence to emit smoke or to burn a fuel type that is not of an 'approved' type. Not quite as dramatic as the headlines.

I reiterate, unless you say where this is no-one can help. Why? Because in some areas there aren't shrinkable clay soils or persistent soil moisture deficits that could cause subsidence or heave damage. Why worry about these until you know the local soil type? And as usual the original poster has disappeared. All a big fat waste of time.

A standard road width is 7.3m, 24 feet. That just leaves room for 3 feet clear on either side. Here in Scotland the Roads Act allows the roads authority to plant 'within the boundaries of the public road' which includes verges. There is a general prohibition against planting within 5 metres of the edge of the road itself.

Tree Species Soil Volume Guide - GreenBlue Urban GREENBLUE.COM Initially published in 2019, the GreenBlue Urban Tree Species Soil Volume Guide was a brave attempt to give specifiers a... Dangb93 covers it. The tree pit shouldn't really have to be much bigger than the rootball or container, as long as the roots are going to be able to penetrate and use the surrounding soil. The green blue urban guide is about final voume. However, I have noted in the past that if you compare it with the volume implied by the root protection area in BS5837, the GBU volume is inadequate.

Ahh, different in Scotland.

Yep, Google allows many varying half-truths to spill forth to a worry-prone society. One can always find one that fits an argument.

Sometimes they are not adopted until they get to a public area. The position of the blockage is not described, if it's in the neighbour's garden it might not be adopted.

If this is going to get acrimoniuos and expensive, best not discuss it on a public forum. Two things are needed, straying roots and a defective drain. Generally it's not the type of thing that's foreseeable. There's also no way that you could have know that your tree in particular is causing damage. Indeed, you couldn't have known there was daamge. But I'd steer clear of admitting that "sewer pipes laid by council builders would probably not be in the best state of repair", as that comes close to acknowledging that you should have foreseen susceptibility to blockage. That said, a properly specified and constructed sewer shouldn't allow roots in. There are rare exceptions to this. Might be best to start from the position that responsibility for blockage lies predominantly or wholly with whoever allowed the drain to fall into disrepair enough to allow roots to enter. But tread carefully, the disrepair (not the blockage) might start at your property. If it's on the neighbour's property, it shouldn't be your problem. The law of nuisance, negligence and foreseeability issurprisingly complex, with no absolutes. It is certainly not a 'strict liability' situation. Eucalyptus is rarely a good idea in urban settings.

No Council has the right to stick rigidly to the 12x DBH RPA. Trees don't read guidelines, they go where they find favourable growing conditions. The relevant British Standard says tha thte RPS should be drawn initially as a circle, but then should be modified to reflect underground condiitons. In my experience rooting near roads and footways are nearly never radial. Correction, never. The Standard says that the assessment of root distribution must be done by an arboriculturist. Neither they with their simplistic rule nor you can justify the RPA being circular or any alternative shape. Point 2 is that the RPA is not the same as the area within which roots cna be found. The latter is always bigger than the former. A trench may help to demonstrate something or other, and if it showed up no roots then you have the proof you need. If you find roots you don't know if they're important enough to avoid. They might be deep enough to bridge over. Their loss might be tolerable. Not simple.

Thanks for doing this, it's really reassuring to see the tree managing the wound. Numerous myths are being dispelled as we watch.

Lots of lichen masking the problem. I am seeing bleeding cankers which could be due to several things including Phytophthora, Armillaria or bark beetles.

Germans call it the Gingerbread Tree or Cake Tree

Cercidiphyllum japonicum. Katsura also known as Caramel Tree.

I use magnetic signs for my survey car. 2 issues in the past were - 1. Someone stole them when I was parked at the supermarket, a customer called me up a few hours later and said some guys had been around asking if she wanted trees lopped, the van had my signs on it. Had she not known me she might have fallen for it and I would have got the reputaitonal damage of a shoddy job. 2. They don't work on aluminium bodywork. Obviously, but for 2 years with my wee Audi I did without. Vistaprint does them really cheap but recently started only doing max A4, which is nearly useless.

OK it's a bit clearer now. Being interviewed under caution is a different thing from a caution as an alternative (after admission of guilt) to prosecution.

Big man, being rude to people from the safety of anonymity. As suspected your contributions to this forum are mostly hot air and bravado and it will please me to ignore all of them in the future. So in that respect I will indeed S the FU and leave you to continue believing that your utterances are sound, helpful or entertaining.

It is very common up here, but Scotland has had a different system of land ownership form England since ever (Roman Law origins mixed with feudal tenure). The developer records a deed called a Deed of Conditions, which applies to all houses sold in the developent. It sets out the common rights and obligations in respect of common parts, which cna be everything from roof trusses to open spaces. It is binding on everyone and is referred to in the recorded deed of every house. Strictly speakign it is only enforceable by the developer against each house owner but by the principle of jus quaesitum tertio it is enforceable by each owner against every other owner. It is recognised in the Land Certificate and legislation as a 'community burden', giving it full enforceability. The good but is that individuals can't muck about. The bad thing is that you can never get agreement on anything. It is in effect a really good way of ensuring that trees on common areas are protected by the full power of self-righteous curtain-twitching. I keep forgetting that England has relatively primitive land ownership systems.

Or (see my post above) it's transferred to all the owners. Maybe that's just a scottish thing?

Just as often (up here anyway) the open spaces are transferred to the residents as common property, to be managed by the residents or a factor. I am very very reluctantly the chair of our residents association and I caught a guy decking 5 big poplars on our land during lockdown (planted 40 years ago to satisfy planning conditions). Fortunately the surrounding residents and co-owners were just as pleased to see the sun as he was, so I am sure there would have been a conspiracy of silence about who did it had I not actually heard the chainsaws blazing and gone out to see what was going on.

Chris see my reply to AHPP, I don't know that there's such a thing as a 'caution'. It might strictly speakino be called a 'reprimand on interview under caution'. Happy to be proved wrong.