Gary Prentice

It looks like Lati. How significant its colonisation actually is and recommendations for further action ( if necessary) can't be determined from a few photos and a description. I would only say to get a suitably qualified, experienced and insured (Professional Indemnity) consultant to advise you after some on site investigation.

Felix, over a period of time you kind of formulate an idea about posters, based on their posts, there sense of humour, irony etc. I can't believe how close I was now that you've revealed yourself..... :lol:

Thanks Darrin, don't put yourself out though. Going back to your original question, I'd probably fell and replace.

:001_smile:I think,at work there's only my missus who hasn't got tats.

There may be something in the SIA that's used in Germany, but I can't think of anything that doesn't use a lot of software. My memories a bit vague, but I seem to remember a YouTube video on Frank Rinners version of the Picus that takes the canopy geometry/exposure/extent of decay etc to produce a 'safe' canopy size. I may be dreaming though:001_rolleyes:

As a matter of interest, is that the only included Union. I've come across a couple of planes that had an above average number of weak unions and wonder if there's a variety that's more prone to them?

I've used the window of opportunity before and the officer bucked his ideas up and got his house in order for a while, but now things are back to the usual status quo. I know last time it went on to the legal department but I didn't hear anything else. I'd even given a few days grace to allow for two bank holidays, so they couldn't say I was unfair. My opinion now is if they can't serve an order within six weeks, that's their problem.

The planning department send an automatic reply on emails, so coupled with the 'sent email' information I'm comfortable in proving submissions. I've seen the trees today and am still in agreement with the TO in his decision to protect further, but that's beside the point. I want to pursue it to try to force the planning department to improve their practices. It's difficult for the public to understand what they can and can't do, and the general malaise and attitude in the department leaves a lot to be desired. Might not win this one, but if it can be used to begin some changes I think it's worth doing.

But the LPA have the authority not to accept that, if they continue to do so is the consultant going to improve? It wouldn't be an abuse of their powers to state that there is insufficient information in the AIM for them to reach a decision and then request more.

It's difficult to comment without knowing the circumstances. I have no issue with protecting the trees with a TPO, tbh I would in their position. I'm acting on principle. I act professionally and play by the rules. This authority are appalling at times. One case comes to mind where they twice refused consent to fell a tree on which an order hadn't been confirmed - after eight years. And I can prove that they did it with the full knowledge that it wasn't protected. This client had a window of opportunity, after the expiration of six weeks until today but due to their ignorance and the councils procedures, they didn't avail themselves. I'd just like to see some integrity somewhere.

A)The devil is in the detail. I think the wording 'Local Planning Authority' allows a degree of ambiguity. Is the council as a whole the LPA or the planning department itself? Is it reasonable for the 'applicant' to assume the clock starts ticking because the TO has received the submission? A client submitted to the TO in the middle of April and heard nothing back at all. I got involved on wednesday and phoned the planning department to ask what was the date of submission (i.e. when did they receive it from the TO) and have been stonewalled ever since. At 4.50 this evening I got sent a TPO dated today. Along with this, the planning officer has written that when he went the premises they couldn't validate, due to their being no plan. The submission was to fell 2 ash trees. There's two ash and two sycamore in the garden. It feels like being baffled with bull manure. With less knowledge, I would have felled the trees on wednesday on the presumption that six weeks had elapsed. But by making sure everything was legal and by attempting to clarify the position, now we can't. I don't think the council has acted particularly well in all of this and as a matter of principle want to make them change their procedures. I'm putting in at least one TPO app/211 notice a week and have to chase every decision up. I don't want to appeal (non-confirmation) every bloody app but nothing comes back on time. One app took 5 months and CA responses regularly arrive 1-2 months after we've done the work. Sorry I'm ranting:biggrin: I'm making enquiries elsewhere, so if I get definitive answers I'll post them up.

I need some answers to a number of questions and tbh don't have the time to spend all night trawling through Mynor's and searching Acts and Statutes. I think I've got more questions than I'm actually going to ask now, but for starters...... A) For the purpose of submissions to the LPA, does a submission have to go to the actual planning department or would an email submission to the Tree Officer ( who is employed in a separate department) count as the submission date? B) I've read elsewhere that for the purpose of a S.211 notice, there is no legal requirement to provide a site plan. Where does it state this? C) Is there a legal requirement for the LPA to issue a validation letter after a S211 notice is submitted or any letter giving the expiration date of the six week period? Thanks in anticipation. gary

There's always that new App:biggrin:

Sure you didn't drive round from the other end?

19,999 to go then Jon.

Taxonomy and the rules of nomenclature = paracetamol and a lie down

Laetiporus sulphureus - Chicken of the wood/Sulphur Polypore - David Humphries’s Fungi Directory - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists chicken of the woods

The fictional academic, Robert Langdon, in Dan Browns novels, has an apt saying: "googling isn't research" maybe the same should be said for wiki:biggrin: Cerioporus squamosus and: http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=22489&Fields=All Also confirms what David said.

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That was my thought. It isn't clear what the seller is selling it for though. I got a price for a Q robur, 40-50cm so semi-mature size. The cost for that was over £2500 + Vat, but I think transport was FOC:biggrin:

I doubt if there is any one single answer. Any answer is likely to be based on what the crop is, what's already there to start with, the acreage, other incomes such as carbon sequestration - the list goes on. I think I read that willow grown for biomass can be harvested within 3-5 years and then every few years thereafter. (Maybe even annually, I can't remember) On the other hand, commercial forestry would wait 40-50+ years before harvesting. I was reading National Geographics Redwood article yesterday, which provides a good explanation of some of the different ways those forests can be managed. Reading some of 'The Village Idiots' posts is quite enlightening on some other methods of deriving income from woodlands on a smaller scale.

I wondered how they created these:thumbup1:

Can't see the reason/benefit of that at all.

An interesting article on 'changing baseline syndromes', very tree related. The past isn't what it used to be - Ancient Forest Exploration & Research

Unfortunately a bit too far for me.