kevinjohnsonmbe

You might end up with some general opinions, maybe even some opposing views but your best bet would be to get someone local to have a proper look at the site and the circumstances. I’d suggest it would be money well spent to allay your fears or to propose a mutually agreeable remediation. If you were to indicate a geographic region you might get someone nearby to take it on.

What’s your geographical location?

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I'd just 'tweak' your question a touch Michael.... A basic understanding of physics, tree physiology and appropriate felling technique combined with the assistance of a mechanical pull is entirely reasonable. There is no place in that equation for idiocy though and the idiocy supersedes all else where it wasn't even thought necessary to stop the traffic. I do like your point about c*nts like this periodically providing the evidence of why prices are what I say they are/ If you think good tree work is expensive, try getting some poor tree work...

Hold on, it's in the file with the certificates of competency.....

Ban wood burners - Heathrow expansion to cater for recreational flights - OK.....

That’s what I concluded. The only point I wasn’t clear on - but suspected it not to be the case unlike in building without or other than in accordance with the regs - you cannot have a retrospective TPO approval whereas you can have a retrospective building approval. I’ll be exploring it further with a query to the case officer. Public interest….? A publicly funded QUANGO (NE) engaging an apparently inept contractor to undertake inappropriate work within a National Nature Reserve in contravention of simple TPO restrictions being judged for public interest by a LA that suffers from exceptionally low public confidence…. Wouldn’t expect it to progress very far.

I don’t see how it can get retrospective consent given the TOs comments. It would surely need to be withdrawn or amended - it can’t (realistically) be approved by PO with those TO comments.

I can’t reconcile a retrospective application (in TPO context) let alone a retrospective exemption. A most irregular situation for sure.

It’s destabilised dude….

Seems a peculiar / irregular approach to me. Natural England - the tree 'owner' - applying for the retrospective exemption for the felling of a stem - claimed under an exemption which the TO later decided didn't apply, then submitting an application seemingly to validate the exemption which didn't apply..... Whereas the TO comment at the planning application advises that a future application would be necessary to crown reduce retained stems to mitigate companion loss, this is not that application but rather an after the event application seeking retrospective approval for work which was not exempt. To put it another way.... This is a written admission of failure to abide by the T&CPA - the only matter to be decided is whether prosecution would be in the public interest (answers on a post card😌) Any comments?? PA23/01362 | Application for works to a tree subject to tree preservation order, namely retrospective exemption for felling the southern stem of a multi-stem Beech, Fagus Sylvatica. | Golitha Falls Draynes Bridge Common Moor Cornwall PL14 6RY PLANNING.CORNWALL.GOV.UK Online planning registers for Cornwall. View and comment on planning applications and documents online.

Nothing ‘could’ happen could it….. Wouldn’t ‘do’ to be critical of the gold sponsor of the Arb show which followed shortly after the trick fell event 😂

But he IS special Stubs 😝😝

Your line of work seems a bit specialised Andy so you’d expect training costs to be high in the early years. That said, I’m currently looking at a comparison between a fixed term 2 year direct employment and a contracted out option for a business opportunity I’m assessing. It has come as a bit of a shock to run the actual numbers behind the assumption that an employee salary is multiplied by 1.5-1.75 to give the ‘cost’ of that body to the business. The higher the training, equipment and tools / machinery requirement, plus T&S for a mobile role, the higher still - obviously. Personally, I’ve run for years without direct employed - predominantly because I don’t do full time, but having just run the figures in detail, I see money / cost as just 1 of a whole raft of issues which makes direct employment so much more trouble than it’s worth for micro / SMEs. As it stands, it’s looking like a +/- 30% cost efficiency from contracted services over fixed term direct employment contract and it’s likely (as an ‘experience based’ assessment,) that contract staff will deliver output in about ½ the time of direct employed primarily because of job and knock motivation. Because I have had to get right down into the detail, rather than just rolling with a gut feeling, I am shocked by what I have found in terms of how hard it has been made for a micro / SME to work effectively. To get back on track, actual staff performance is just 1 headache of direct employment - there are way too many others!

Yeah, I’m slower these days - I just saw it.

You wouldn’t judge a whole organisation by a couple of examples but when the examples are duplicated and replicated, in all but identical anecdotal reference from completely unconnected experiences from all points of the compass - that’s when you start to get a feel for systemic, organisational lack of competence and relevance.

Never met a single one that’s worth a toss

E-aaaaw, E-aaaw, E-aaaways says that…..

Yeah, “Unfortunately true” Its like it should be the title of an Oasis anthem with a 2022 theme…. Or unprecedentedly shit as a B side track.

OK, right-o. you recognise how crap CAP is / was, so much so that you voluntarily chinned it off, but my lack of understanding is the problem…. Right-o. I’ll draw a line under it there….

When you started with "...so here's the problem..." I actually thought there was going to be something substantial / meaningful to follow.... I don't have an ivory tower but I will look at the figures and draw my own conclusions - if there is blame to be apportioned it will lay where it lays. Look at the numbers - 70% of UK land in intensive agriculture, 56% species denudation. You don't have to be Sir John Curtice to run the numbers. If farmers are NOT responsible then who the f*ck is? The next 2 points in your post we can agree on - The CAP (an EU directive) was completely ludicrous, misapplied, exploited, damaging, corrupt, ineffective, blah, blah, blah.... A very firm part of my anti EU stance BTW and hats off to you for chinning them off. The next part is the uncomfortable truth - far from being the much vaunted NFU 'custodians of the countryside' and general all round good eggs in regard to the natural environment, the agricultural sector (on a macro level) is an exploitative, capitalist industrial process extracting and exploiting resource for personal profit. Maybe that cute little red tractor would be better described in these terms? It's odd to me that you perceive my input as gurning, griping, and sniping, what? Am I not allowed an alternative POV? You clearly understand that some of what I highlight is a real world problem because you recognise that some are driven by financial need (greed) and that you have turned your back on that system. By your own example therefore the point I seek to present, rather than gurning, griping, and sniping, is actually proven by your own word and deed. How do you assess that I have no skin in the game? Let's not fall out over it, it seems to me we have more to agree about that you seem to want to disagree with.... 😉

That well known and widely acclaimed academic resource - the farming forum..... 😂 Between 1970 and 2013, 56% of species in the UK declined. The biggest impact on UK wildlife has been the intensification of agriculture. Agriculture accounts for over 70% of land use in the UK, but the environmental damage we have suffered while inside the current Common Agricultural Policy has been significant. Soil health has deteriorated. Numbers of farmland bird species such as the grey partridge, tree sparrow, skylark, linnet and yellowhammer have dropped. Precious UK habitats have been eroded. Intensive farming has resulted in the loss of flower meadows, hedgerows and trees – all of which are vital habitats for pollinating insects such as bees, with knock-on effects for species further up the food chain. 5 threats to UK wildlife | WWF WWW.WWF.ORG.UK We’re losing our incredible wildlife at an alarming rate. We need to act quickly to restore nature. Here we look at 5 threats to...

It is almost a carbon copy (pun intended) of this article from several years ago - at least he is 'recycling' his articles rather than doing any 'new' work over the festive period: Wood burners triple harmful indoor air pollution, study finds | Air pollution | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Exclusive: Burners should be sold with health warnings, say scientists who found tiny particles flooding into rooms

F*cking legendary! I've no beef with those that aspire to a borderless world - I think they are deluded fools, but I respect their right to hold that opinion. What grips me the most is the complete waste of money having a (so-called) 'system' which is hugely expensive and TOTALLY ineffective. Either have borders - and enforce them, or have a free-for-all and save the money that is currently being spaffed up the wall on a system that evidentially does not work. Why should I wait in line to have a disinterested, potentially illegal, immigration mong check my passport at Heathrow when there are 10s of thousands of these c*nts arriving by boat on the South coast every year.... One or the other people.