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Thanks Kevin, this is interesting and yes like you said getting over the first tier of administrative barrier probably going to be really challenging work. Thanks Will, council have only provided me with an email address to complain if I am not happy with their decision. I don't know who I need to speak to in-order for me to put my view across. I think I am going to try and book an appointment with tree officer tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks

Thank you 😊 Wonderful thanks Dan I will try and book an appointment with him/her tomorrow.

Sorry what is TO?

Thanks Khriss, it is really annoying that every house on this that has a tree in front of their house has a driveway and because previous owner who lived in this property for over 50 years decided he did not wanted to have a drive we couldn't have one now

Thanks Peter, that is what they said on the email but there was nothing mentioned about inspection trench. Sounds like I will have to speak to someone from council isn't it?

Thanks Kevin, it was application for dropped kerb site survey to Sutton council highway agency. I think someone came and marked the pavement with pink spray with some numbers. Here is the exact words from the email. "As per to minimum standard of section 2f of the current policy. f) Trees – Highway trees will not be removed to allow a vehicle crossover. If there is conflict with an established street tree on the public highway, a vehicle crossing cannot be constructed within the root protection area (RPA) of the tree in accordance with British Standards (currently BS 5837:2012). As a guide, for a tree with a single stem, the RPA is calculated as 12 times the stem diameter, measured at a height of 1.5m above the ground level. . Please note I did measure the trees RPA, Left side tree RPA 12 x 0.7 = 8.4m Right side tree RPA 12 x 0.33 =3.96m The trees RPA over laps one another . I do recognize that there may be crossovers down your road that are close to the trees but these would have been constructed before the current vehicle crossover policy was put in place.

We just bought a property in Sutton and it does not currently have a driveway. I applied for initial assessment for a dropped kerb with Sutton council but two days later I got email to informed me my application has been rejected due to two trees on public pavement and RPA (12 times) calculations overlapping. I am really confused as both trees are not directly outside my property and my neighbour who has one of the tree outside his house already have a dropped kerb. Is there anything can be done to install the dropped kerb and not harm the trees? Any guidance would be great thanks 🙏

We just bought a property in Sutton and it does not currently have a driveway. I applied for initial assessment for a dropped kerb with Sutton council but two days later I got email to informed me my application has been rejected due to two trees on public pavement and RPA (12 times) calculations overlapping. I am really confused as both trees are not directly outside my property and my neighbors already have a dropped kerb. Is there anything can be done to install the dropped kerb and not harm the trees? Any guidance would be great thanks 🙏