kevinjohnsonmbe

Check the customer charter for your LA (my area is 3 days for a straightforward response to a query, 10 days for a more complex issue). There should also be a 'key dates' link on the planning page (if a TPO submission) Write or email via customer complaints would be my advise.

DECC need to go through the chipper! The domestic RHI roll out has been a diabolical and shameful shambles from the pen pushing desk jockeys in the civil service. We're operating biomass, PV & thermal, and I'm struggling on with the pellet manufacture process (which I think might have to be scaled down to "self sufficiency" looking at the red tape mountain)

Agreed!

That's the one!

Meant to do it last year but time was against us, doors off the burner last week, bolts seized but drilled & re-tapped now, new glass on order ready to light the bad boy up soon methinks!

Good effort fella, don't ditch the ropes & harness yet though.

Brilliant!

Thought provoking! Arterial bleed, I'd have thought that would warrant an immediate A&E visit?

As suggested by Arbtech Trees, the course is the best place to start! Get your techniques, kit, best practice weighed off under direction/supervision/advice and mentoring of a good instructor in a training environment, then build experience! That way you should start right rather than possibly picking up bad habits prior to training/assessment.

Wassit called??

Hawthorn can be nasty and I've found the domestic / small holding most likely customers. Farmers tend for the flail for sheer economy, speed and capacity

Lots of good points above, it's not the money but the sense of satisfaction

If you want to avoid too much hassle, but reenforce your right to go about your lawful business, you could try contacting the community liaison PC. I had a site clearance where a number of neighbours were really anti. They'd done all the planning objections, and failed, but my gang was the first physical presence on site and an obvious target. I had verbal abuse, threats, insults and swearing. Under normal circumstances my rhino hide wouldn't have flinched but from a "supposedly" respectable middle class "lady" and her lacky Justice of the peace wing man, I thought right, we'll play it by the numbers. I explained to the PC that should it happen again, there is likely to be a breach of the peace (in old speak.) And would they be kind enough to advise the perp of the potential for contravening Section 4 Public Order Act. The "Lady" got a visit from plod which set all the curtains twitching and I was keen to make sure the friendly neighbours knew why the police were in the parish. Didn't see her again. So if its still troubling you, that could be a simple, low hassle solution to stop him doing it again. Easier than a formal complaint and rather (smugly) satisfying.

Ah, I hadn't seen the post, but, on reflection, I offer a preemptive apology for my rash post which is a symptom of an impassioned and lively discussion topic, well done OP. What is blatantly obvious from the "claim / counter claim" status of this discussion thread (which is being duplicated at higher and lower intellectual levels all across the country) is that any solution will be a real challenge requiring those on BOTH sides to seriously challenge their preconceived or financially motivated perspective. I wouldn't naturally fall within an anti-cull category but I do in this case. There's little point banging heads with no hope of anyone changing their minds so I think I'll stop banging my head.

Avoiding the history and relevant democratic status of the members of the UNSC, and accepting that this is the system we have, and accepting that each of the 5 have differing agendas, just consider the number of people represented by Russia and China in comparison to the number of people represented by UK & USA. To suggest 1 member might use the veto because they're feeling arsey is whimsical.

Of course it needs to be dealt with. But since there is obviously such split opinion (it's a pity you choose to label the main players in the anti cull campaign as liars - that's a fairly blinkered start point) I do not support the present cull proposal. There are far greater minds than mine arguing the case, both for and against. Not sure I'd take the position of calling those I don't currently agree with as liars even though I have a fairly low opinion of the NFU, post nicotinoid denial et al. I acknowledge your point about TB in cattle pre-intensive farming. I'd hope you'd agree that there are improvements that could be made in animal husbandry - the regulatory requirements are already in place - and there are plenty of (respectable investigative journalist as well as whacko ALF-esque) video exposé of poor husbandry. There are also some ground breaking best practice farmers (I've worked for 1 large outfit) that set a very high bar. There was no intended suggestion that wild boar are any kind of control measure. That's an example of the limitations of 'chat forums' compared to face to face chat/discussion/debate. The point I was hoping to get across was that if we cull the badger and it doesn't decrease the instance of bTB, the logic, which your reference to TB in dear seems to advance, is that after the badger has gone we'll have to choose the next species to eradicate in order to safe guard the cash crop. It'll play out, we'll see how the stats are manipulated by either side at the end of the test cull. The 'career protesters', the anarchists, the great unwashed, the league against cruel sports etc will all be there protesting, that's what they do, but so will a great many of the rest of the population. For the time being I'm staying anti-cull. Its a long shot but I'm wondering if, under the 'Commando' login, it's Brian from DSC1 at Duchy I'm replying to??

You could say pointless, or another way of looking at it could be the will of the majority?

Had a quick look at the link, stopped after the title. Dealing with TB in your herd. The reference is for farmed not wild deer.

Ok, perhaps I was typing before brain fully engaged! Yes TB can be found in deer (and humans!) The point I wanted to make, perhaps too hastily, was that intensive farming is concentrating cattle in close proximity, trans continental movement and poor animal husbandry combined with a "stressful" existence brought about by maximising dairy or beef output is more likely to cause the spread of bTB. It is BOVINE TB that is spreading into the wild environment not the other way round. I stalk deer too, when did you, or anyone you know last find or report TB in a deer you shot? It's rare, thankfully. But there in lies the explanation of why the badger cull is irrational. If this cull doesn't produce the (NFU) desired results, what do we blame next? Deer, humans? If you keep getting an electric shock should you cut the electric off or take your finger out of the plug socket? Cause & effect!

"The West" has no mandate to feck around in anyone else's business! The UN does and the majority of nations (excl US which is still in serious arrears) pay handsomely for its services.

That's brilliant! Are you busy? I could sub you in, pay your travel, sit at home all day and count my profit!

Unlikely to affect deer because they have not been genetically modified, they are not highly stressed throughout their productive lifespan, they're not intensively farmed, transported country and continent wide, cross contaminating due to poor biosec. The disease is a symptom of the farming system and badgers, through contact with cattle, have acquired the disease. That's why it's called BOVINE TB. vaccinating cattle, improving biosec and a movement away from intensive farming is the logical way forward. The badger is the scapegoat in this situation, the farming system is the real culprit but who wants to acknowledge that....

Not sure the link even works now ):0( If you can be bothered, search YouTube "George's Theory"

Cant seem to direct link to the vid from iPhone, probably just me being a dunce but this is a beauty!