Gary Prentice

Thank you

Sorry, I missed your reply due to getting sidetracked by the troll. The 'hollow' thing is an in-joke and wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I think that the whole 'weighing trees' thing is simply click bait by the popular press and media. I'm still trying to access the peer reviewed articles(not the beano or huff post) to find out a bit more about the methodology. Or maybe they just made it all up

That cracked me up.... I wonder where your mind is sometimes

The grass cutter from Bolton has spoken.

Aren't new additions either; "I've had that for years!" Or "They were giving them away in the sales!" Or does only apply to shoes and handbags?

That sounds like a great day, long awaited. I'll reinstate the lost points.

So now where do you look or who do you ask? Nicely documented, but you lose points for the blatant name dropping

I think it already has...

What a way to run a railway! When I was a kid, the railway was a service industry.

The FC website say AOD is more usual on mature trees, have you seen it on new plantings or read anything different. Not disagreeing that it could be, just trying to improve my own knowledge.

Doesn't the blood rush to his head doing that?

Understand the question? I don't even know what the question is! This threads getting really confusing, people calling each other names, others getting offended because someone's called someone else a swear word. I thought I'd landed on Mumsnet, not Arbtalk

Been below freezing all day, with short snow flurries. I heard that BR are cancelling trains in East Anglia because it's forecasted to snow!!!

That's harsh Mark

And you're surprised because?...

So are you still assuming that it is dodgy, without any further investigation?

The only time that I ever feel that I need a vest (bulletproof) is parts of Merseyside Back on track.... I validation today Dated two weeks after submission

I spoke to the examiner next door today as to what will be deemed minor and major faults: his comment was that they'll be what Vosa tells them they are, probably, but the test centres will be the last to know. The purpose of these changes? To off-road any vehicle that isn't electric or more than two years old! I think I might of caught on a bad day

Who's got the popcorn?

Only live here Khris, born in Enfield, North London

The wording of the regulations is along the lines of, ‘notice given and no TPO in place’. If you’ve submitted a notification, six weeks have elapsed and a TPO hasn’t been served.... Maybe I should add, the regulations actually say, ‘it shall be a defence...notice given and no TPO’ which makes you feel on the wrong side of the law to start with. Rereading the council response. Are you sure that the tree(s) aren’t covered by a TPO? It wouldn’t be the first time that a council have received a notification (for a CA) when it should have been an application for a TPO’d tree within a CA! Some will then treat the notification as an application, rather than invalidating it and requesting a new application. But in that case, the TPO rules apply and you’d be in contravention if you did the works after six weeks, in the mistaken belief that you’d served notice. Because of the LA response, which hopefully is an error on their part, I would suggest you check/search again - just in case. You wouldn’t be in a good position, having received that reply, if the tree was under a TPO and you carried on under the assumption that it wasn’t. If the TO is a stickler, show your own professionalism and clarify the situation with him. It’s a poor situation if the council are issuing misleading and confusing acknowledgements/validations out.

I’ve never needed to go that far, but did research it. Try pocketdiagnosis.com or search ‘ phytophthora test kits’

My missus wants a wolfhound, and AspenArbs new kittens... Im going to have to stop showing her photos off here.

It’s bleeding heart liberals like you who ruining this country!

What planet do you live on Khris? Most of the Manchester Metro BCs don’t even have interactive mapping showing TPOs. CAs are downloadable PDFs generally, but you need to be conversant with the area to even know what map your address may be on. Its tough up North