Gary Prentice

Missed it? It ain't started yet.

Did that Friday with lads from work. Guinness and jaegabombs:thumbup:

My LA used to demand three copies for tree Apps. I told them them this didn't concur with the regs and, IIRC, the blue book and that I wouldn't be doing that. They changed their procedure.

Don't knock it. If good tree planting/positioning always occurred, we'd be out of work!

Used largish oval mallions before. Big enough to fit around the harnesses waist webbing, where there are gaps in the attachment to the padding.

You mean an advert on tv is dishonest and untruthful! Oh well, I can still believe in Father Christmas.

Kev ain't been caught yet. But will have to sweat for seven years, which I think is the length of time you can be prosecuted for 'tree crimes'

We don't concern ourselves who would be, hypothetically, responsible around here. The LAs legal department don't prosecute, even when the TO catches someone chainsaw in hand, so apparently you can do as you please.

My Arb Officers are fine, the planning department is impossible to deal with. Can I come and work where you work:biggrin: EDIT: I've also objected to a new TPO. Ther planning officer won't even answer my query as to when, or if, this will go before a planning committee. For all I know, the TO/PO decide to protect, look at any objections and then, their selves just ignore them and confirm.

Does frost stop parsnips being woody?

John, I think I'm in the same position. Paper on site with someone elses topo plan. Back home, I use keysofts software to do all the drawing work, but it's a pain entering all the data to produce the rpas, BS tree categories, etc. Then, reproducing all the written survey data for the report. I've used a tablet with excel to get the bulk of the information into the keysoft program, but the tablet itself isn't ideal and doesn't do to well importing into the written report. And if you need to plot the trees yourself, that's a whole new ballgame. It feels like the next step is a big investment, where both eyes need to be fully open to make a very well informed decision, as to where to go.

Why not? I assume that it's only the steel spec that's letting them down, so what stops them sorting that to produce a like for like product? I'm not being facetious or argumentative, just wondering why you think they won't.

Sorry to be blunt, but they can intend to what they want. The only way a LA can object to notified works, a section 211 notice, in a Conservation Area, is to serve a TPO. They can't make up their own rules and 'allow' alternate works. Even the title on that response is incorrect. It isn't an Application - no-one is applying to fell, you're notifying that you intend to unless they oppose it by serving a TPO.

If you wanna fell trees with a machine gun, get a proper one [ame] [/ame]

They can serve anytime, but after six weeks the tree isn't protected by the CA. Shoddy work by the LA and then pulling the wool over your eyes while they get their act together.

Our local highways put a cycle path in just like that footpath. They had a lovely pile of roots waiting for the TO when he turned up.

You wouldn't know what case in particular, off the top of your head? If not, I'll have a browse through Mynors

Done as a spreadsheet. It must have fulfilled the assignment criteria, but personally not the way I'm looking at doing mine. I'd like to produce something useful for future personal reference - but that's just me. It provided a 'tick in the box'.

Wouldn't this require joined up thinking and collaboration between industries? How many bottles did you have last night? Sorry, got out of the cynical side of bed this morning.

Not that simple Kevin, a grey area from my own investigations. Re Prosecution if you pre-empt the six weeks. If the notice would have been agreed, it probably wouldn't be in the public interest to pursue. I don't use the PP if I can help it, submitting directly to the planning office gets a date-stamped automatic reply and the clock starts ticking. We get a similar acknowledgement from the PP (when the PD get it from them, but there is a delay) Do Bank Holidays count in the six weeks? No-one has been able to answer that, to me, definitively! I've excluded them myself when cracking on on day 42. Local Authorities may not date stamp submissions until they actually arrive at the relevant officers' desk, so may even argue when it was received. We felled after six weeks (a pre Christmas notification) and the TPO landed the following day. To mash your mind further, when does the TPO become valid? When it is received or when it gets stamped in the legal department Edit: I started a thread on this a few years ago, I'll look for it and post it up. Tread lightly:lol:

Quite a lot of information necessary for it. You may be best to wait til you start and get one example page/tree 'signed' off before you put a lot of effort into it. It's only one assignment and I know one student did the whole thing in one evening.

Ya mean that they are not £0.13 per chain? And I was going to order two:biggrin:

A bit more info on their website https://www.jcaac.com/hope-for-britains-horse-chestnut-trees/

When it works, it can work very well. Here's to a swift, complication free, recovery.

And. You get the red pen comment (to another 6000 word assignment), "a very informative answer, that fails to answer the question!":biggrin: