Im looking for any advise please - option A - appeal the decision and try to prove my arborist is correct
- option B - go down the expensive and potential dead end rabbit hole route the planing officer is requesting.
Im looking to build a driveway onto my property to access a new (permission granted) garage.
The garage is for classic car storage/maintenance so will be used infrequently - the main driveway is to the front of the house (used daily)
The main driveway offers to access to the rear of the house - the garden driveway will allow access to a dead end road (we're the last house in the road)
Theres a scots pine (approx 70cm wide) with a TPO a meter from the the proposed driveway.
A gate was installed approx 40 years ago and i guess used infrequently by the previous owners.
Arborist is saying, dig between the roots with hand tools or air spade, cellular confinement system between the main roots/over, fill with gravel etc. - he obviously went onto a lot more detail - like 16 pages, trees plots, RPA's etc etc
Tree guy from the council - hard no, you'll damage the roots.
Tree guy from the council - suggested - GPR scan and alternative proposal required.
Option B = The GPR and a plot for ground screws = £3000 - then trying to build a bridge over the roots, more drawings, applications, no clear solution for joining the bridge to the pathway - its all sounding very expensive with no guarantees.
Option A = Appeal the decision - this is one persons view compared to another's - there are potentially 10 houses in less than quarter mile radius with main driveways (black tarmac) right up to the trunks of TPO'd trees.
Any thoughts, options or technical solutions very much appreciated.
I like the tree, I of course don't want to damage it - but this feels like, if the sun was shining, the wind blowing in a different direction etc, the proposal might have been approved.
