Sorry @GardenerSuze but the orders are the end of any action the council take, the tree is then the responsibility of the house owner. For ten years our neighbour wanted a 100ft Ash tree removed as it covered four gardens and was causing damage to property. It was only when the damage to our house was bad enough to involve the insurers that the council backed down and allowed it to be removed. Which turned out to be a good thing, as although the tree was healthy looking it was slowly becoming unsafe, and the tree surgeon said he would have been coming to sort out the tree in 5 to 10 years as that was all he thought it would last. Meaning the foot thick limbs would have come down on one of our houses!
@purplerallim Thank you I very much appreciate this information. It would seem that the TPO is more important than the safetly of people living nearby.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
TPO's are placed to protect the landscape. It then falls on the landowner to have responsibility for it. We had 3 huge Beech trees in our last garden all with TPOs', along with a Silver Birch. We also had a row of Ash but these weren't covered by preservation orders and I kept them in check with regular tree surgeon visits. Those trees do love to grow. Especially after a prune!
One piece of advice I would give, is have a well-respected tree surgeon from the local area talk to the tree officer. They often have a more sympathetic ear than Joe Public. It worked for me. In fact the tree surgeon would get the tree officer to meet him on site (our garden) to agree the level of work that could be undertaken. Then it was just a case of rubber stamping the 'planning application' once submitted.
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For ten years our neighbour wanted a 100ft Ash tree removed as it covered four gardens and was causing damage to property.
It was only when the damage to our house was bad enough to involve the insurers that the council backed down and allowed it to be removed. Which turned out to be a good thing, as although the tree was healthy looking it was slowly becoming unsafe, and the tree surgeon said he would have been coming to sort out the tree in 5 to 10 years as that was all he thought it would last. Meaning the foot thick limbs would have come down on one of our houses!
One piece of advice I would give, is have a well-respected tree surgeon from the local area talk to the tree officer. They often have a more sympathetic ear than Joe Public. It worked for me. In fact the tree surgeon would get the tree officer to meet him on site (our garden) to agree the level of work that could be undertaken. Then it was just a case of rubber stamping the 'planning application' once submitted.
@wild edges Yes I agree fines are hefty not something everyone knows about.