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I've found that when working with a reasonable LPA (ie not one that thinks every tree is sacred, or is apt to change their mind at the drop of hat) the vast majority of clients are very happy to go through the BS:5837 procedure. After all, if they are using a decent and client focussed consultant/surveyor it is almost certain to save them time and money in the long run. Of course, when you have an LPA who regularly tries to protect low value trees then the trust is lost, and developers will fell everything they can before anyone can stop them. It's even worse when a tree officer agrees to something at pre-app and then recommends a refusal later. It is almost impossible to convince a developer to retain trees once that has been done to them a couple of times.
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I've never worked for WYG, but I know people who have. They are a multidicipline planning consultancy. From what I've gathered, they are a really good place to get some planning experience. Probably a very good job to go for if you are interested in this kind of work.
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Thanks everyone. I know about Pear already, and they seem pretty good, but not quite what I'm after. I'll try contacting ormtec, I've not had any dealings with them before.
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QUOTE=Yorkshireman;55220] Local Planners need to enforce 5837 with instruction to include Tree related reports in planning app's from architects & then monitor if its is being applied by contractors. You're quite right Yorkshireman. If the arb method statement is included as a condition of planning then the LPA has many more options available for dealing with breaches to both planning permissions and TPOs. I am still surprised by the number of LPAs who insist on a tree survey but then don't insist on a method statement.
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Thank Bundle and Charlieh. Maybe I remembered wrong, I'll do some more digging around.
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No worries. It could be a really good opportunity for someone. I've noticed quite a few posts where peple are wanting to do education but don't have the money available.
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When I was at college (a few years ago) I was shown a gps device that allowed you to enter data into a table of your own design. This device was very cheap at about £120 or less. It could be adapted to do tree surveys quite easily and the information could be exported as an xls or a csv type file. Does anyone know where I could find such a thing? I've looked online and all I can find are loads of cheap devices which I'm not sure will allow me to enter data, or loads of devices which I know allow data entry but which are very expensive at several hundred pounds.
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I was asked to pass this around: Job Vacancies There's an arb related MSc research opportunity near the bottom of the page. It appears to be paid and is to do with research into the carbon footprint of arboriculture. From reading other threads it might be of interest to quite few people.
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You should ask the staff at Bangor/Penrith. They'll tell you what their past students went on to do. Oh, and if you're looking for a job at the FC, Bangor used to have excellent links (I don't know if they still do).
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Botanical latin- for the love of
arb culture replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Training & education
I was always told that the latin for puffball 'Lycoperdon' means wolf fart. -
AA Annual Conference, Manchester, 12-15th September
arb culture replied to Paul Barton's topic in General chat
I've just realised I'm putting a downer on it. Sorry about that, this conference is not for me, but for those people who are going, I hope you have a good time. -
AA Annual Conference, Manchester, 12-15th September
arb culture replied to Paul Barton's topic in General chat
True enough. It's not for me at the moment though - it's just too expensive. As much as I respect the works of Catena and Schwarze, I don't think it's worth £406 for the privilege of talking to them. Did you know you can buy half a year of lectures on a masters degree course for the same amount the AA are asking for four days. -
AA Annual Conference, Manchester, 12-15th September
arb culture replied to Paul Barton's topic in General chat
Thought I might go to the Tatton Park thing on the Sunday - might be a nice day out for a tree geek like me. The rest of it seems a bit over priced, especially as everything being discussed can be got (or will be available in the future) in the journals, in books or on-line etc. I've fallen foul of this kind of thing before - I've spent a few hundred on a seminar only to discover that all the papers were later available on-line for free. -
I'm sorry but you are wrong. Try googling 'tree root anoxia' (and similar) for quite a lot of scientific papers on the subject dating back several decades.
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No special circumstances - 2m depth is not unusual.
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That's really interesting. Do you know which case that was?
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I can see where you are going with this hama. Rather than try an anti fungal treatment or sealant (which will probably be a temporary fix), have you considered encouraging/inocculating with a non pathogenic fungus instead?
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Roots often go a lot deeper and into places which are more inhospitable than you seem to think Hama. My previous post should read 1cm diameter though, not 10cm - typo, sorry.
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Like it The day I get called to do a subsidence report on a house boat is the day I know trees are getting blamed for too much. This house was a normal semi-detached built in the 1950's or 60's on an unexceptional clay loam. Mind you, thinking of weird subsidence clams, I once saw a tree related subsidence report attributing damage to a cherry tree growing within 5m of a house. Thing is though, the cherry was in a large plant pot with no roots in the ground at all:confused1:
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No calls yet, but I think I might start marketing in Hull. Seriously though, I really don't like subsidence work, it's too depressing and the end result is almost always tree removal, or, a battle with a council followed by tree removal. When I used to do a lot of subsidence reports the trial holes often revealed roots under foundations. I even had a few with trial holes inside the house, one showed 10cm roots at 2m depth under someone's living room .
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AARC contractors are not 'assured' by the AA in any way: "Whist the Arboricultural Association makes every effort to ascertain the competence of Approved Contractors it cannot accept liability in respect of any persons or companies named in this directory. The Arboricultural Association cannot be held responsible for the advice or actions of any persons or companies named in this directory." (taken from the AA website) I think this raises questions about the AA's confidence in its own scheme when it makes such a statement. Just out of curiosity, I wonder about the AA's complaints procedure and how it works. I can't seem to find it on the website.
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Yes they do, I've seen them - and quite frequently.
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Do you have any ideas for a system which can deal with this? I've thought about this a lot, and to be honest I'm struggling to think of a way to improve the TPO system which would be both efficient at protecting trees whilst being cost effective and easy to use.
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How would you make the system better?
