Gary Prentice

Really? So because they’re attractive they should expect a slap on the bum? If someone used that as an excuse for touching up your missus at work, or your daughter, you’d just tell them to get over it?

Matelot?

I wonder who’s making an issue of it? The waitresses or the uncover reporters at the event?

It's ok, we can all stop worrying about the Presidents Club, there's a petition to sign...

This wasn't the local rugby club or a girls night out from work though. As I understand it, they were all city types, bankers and financiers. People you would hope or expect to exhibit a certain level of decorum?

We can still laugh at ourselves (as long as we don't tell anyone, in case they get offended on our behalf)

BS5837s seem like the Leyland cypress reductions of the 'consulting world'. No one particularly likes doing them, but they pay the bills. The only consolation is that at least with the surveys, a lot of the work can be done in the office in the warm and dry, you don't have to worry about nesting birds and your gear doesn't get covered in sticky sap

What would you be wearing? Wouldn't want to clash, like.

It happens when we're getting older!

I suppose there's only one easy option to get out of the 'straight white male' category then? But the for the sake of saving a tenner to go and watch Jeremy Corbyn, I think I'll give it a miss!

And when it isn't an afterthought, it's still ignored. How often do you identify the only Cat A tree on the site to later receive a tender document showing that it's in the middle of someones new lounge and has to be removed?

The silly old bugger

Memory going a bit, Tree rover?

How do you do that? My Mrs keeps hinting about a slight enlargement and I was wondering if there was a cheaper option than £3000

oh, 10mph average speed?

In certain circles, folks will be nodding their heads and agreeing with all the criticisms in that article. worrying ain't it?

I’m sure it would be fine at 60mph on the M1

But until planners start to refuse to accept the ‘woeful and inadequate’ that don’t provide the necessary information, they’ll keep getting them. If the report doesn’t provide the required information, how do planners then go forward to determine the application? I’m not trying to pick on anyone, I’m interested because it seems a common complaint, yet nothing seems to be done to resolve it.

We run one ( converted to tracks) as a spare which must be around 15 yr old. its had a couple of engines (our fault), easy to work on and I think spares are readily available from Gibson’s (Nelson, Colne way I think) someone will have their contact info. Gibsons do come across as very helpful and knowledgeable, so might be useful to have a chat with them.

Well this thread went downhill quicker than Maria

Parachute jumping.... Oh and 180mph on my Suzuki Hayabusa. I bottled out at 7500 rpm, it redlined at 11000 rpm.

The Manchester Highway Robbery, sorry Permit is for occupation of the highway, so possibly if you're not occupying the road i.e. vehicles and chippers parked off-road, stop/go boards could be used without one. I imagine that the relevant department would prefer the use of the permit (and the £400). The three minute temporary stop used to be the 'go to' method in the past, but it could be real sketchy. Drivers could ignore the lads in the road, you'd get idiots overtaking already stopped traffic on the wrong side of the road and driving underneath the trees, all sorts.

I don't know about other areas, but all of the Manchester Metropolitan Boroughs require a permit for occupying the highway when using traffic lights, I assume that stop/go lollipops would too. The fee for the permit is £400 + Vat It doesn't exactly encourage working properly.

I was actually told by an Architect, after the application was refused, that he didn't normally advise obtaining an arb survey because of the additional costs. This was despite the presence of two TPO'd trees within metres and the proposed foundations being within the RPAs. Recently a building inspector pulled a builder on the dug foundation depth of an extension. The reason being a lawson cypress hedge within 0.75 m of the footing. The NHBC foundation depth calculator required a 2.1+ m foundation depth with the hedge retained, removal of the hedge would have required a S211 Notice and a six week delay because the application originally stated that no trees or hedges would be required to be removed. To my mind, it's quite simple. The application form asks if there are trees present on or close to the site. If the architect answers honestly (I mean they're pretty big things that planners are going to notice), get arboricultural advice.