Liz Phillips

Thanks everyone

Hi, Does anyone know of any firms doing airspading/ decompaction work in or near South Wales? Thanks

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Thanks for the welcome Gary. Good luck with this one

If the trees are in a CA, all trees above 7.5cm dbh are protected and require an S211 notification to be given to the LA before work is carried out. If the LA does not wish to grant consent, they have to TPO the tree. Area Orders only cover the trees that were present when the order was created. If the order is 30 years old, only trees present at that time are covered - which is open to interpretation as to how old any of the trees are. Usually an area order does not specify the number of trees protected. Possibly the trees that you have applied to carry out work to are not covered by the original area order. If they are a treeworks application should be submitted. If they aren't already covered then the LA are correct to issue a new TPO in response to a S211 notice. Ideally, to avoid confusion the Area Order should be revoked, any trees above 7.5cm dbh will be covered by the CA anyway.