Good news Phillipa - hope it works out well for you - glad you kept your head & are working towards to an amicable solution - much better all round
You might find it helpful to look at your LA website to get some information about their stance on TPO's. Our LA takes a very pragmatic view that (whilst it is important to protect and maintain trees of beauty & a certain stature) it is actually more important to ensure people can live happily and safely with them.
Consequently, they rarely seem to refuse well-made applications for tree maintenance. They will also allow a tree to be felled if it can be shown that it is dangerous or causing other trees to not thrive (by cutting out light, competing for water etc). A lot will depend on how good the application is and the mind set of the TPO officer.
If you have any influence over the choice of tree surgeon it might be worth using a company used by your LA to carry out work in public spaces (parks / along highways etc) - they will have lots of experience of making submissions to carry out work on trees protected by TPOs and will also be well qualified to carry out the work without further damage to either your or your neighbour's property.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Today it took me from 7am 12 o'clock to arrange new Internet connection at new house and disconnect current Internet at this house. I could sort neither before as we did not know until Wednesday when we would be moving. So we are moving 30 th and the earliest I can get connected is 6thFebruary and VIRGIN MEDIA who do not have cables at new house are charging me 138 pounds cancellation fee!!!!!
Mini rant! Got a card in the post to say our electricity will be off from 9am to 4pm on Monday . In January! We currently still have lying snow and can't go out as I'm having a load of hay delivered. It means careful planning: fill all thermoses before 9, get in loads of logs for woodburner, put a pan of water on top. Moving the hay will keep me warm (!), but will have to keep coming in to feed the stove, as OH is disabled and can't do it. I suppose I can't complain if they are doing it to maintain the supply, but could do without the extra hassle!
BM that does sound a bit steep! You'd expect to pay something, but how do they justify so much?
Thanks BM, it's not that bad - they are all out in the shed, just got to fill a few boxes and bring them in , the woodburner gets through them really fast. Good thing we have it though or there would be no heat at all. We actually cooked most of Christmas dinner on it one year when we had a long power cut on the big day. Luckily the bird was well on its way to being done, after an early start, so that was finished on the barbecue. Like Australia, except we had snow!
my neighbour put their chopped up xmas tree in my green bin!!!!!!! 3 inch trunk!!! AAARRGGHHH!!!!!!!! i took it out and left it by bins, was going to be kind and bag it up next day but they moved it... i put a note on my now full bin saying no bigger than a pencil thick and the bin won't be emptied til may, i really want a hot composter,....
I wouldn't be best pleased at that one Rosemummy, have they apologised? Our collection starts in March. However my bin fell into the lorry aparently at the end of last season and a new one hasn't been delivered yet. Hubby has already had to make two trips to the tip. Maybe you neighbour would like to do a tip run and take his Christmas tree with him.
What a cheek, it wouldn't have been quite so bad if they'd asked first!
We have a bin for garden waste which is emptied every 2 wks. We would be allowed to put something in that thick, but chop the tree up rather than put it in whole. Our local tip also shreds old xmas trees during January.
They asked once last year when i first got it and seem to think it's ok to use the whole time now, they don't garden just chop bits off randomly when their garden doesn't look perfectly neat ( no flowers not my kind of thing at all!), i don't mind them putting in my jasmine which goes over into their garden but the never offer to contribute, oh well, could be a lot worse!
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Good news Phillipa - hope it works out well for you - glad you kept your head & are working towards to an amicable solution - much better all round
You might find it helpful to look at your LA website to get some information about their stance on TPO's. Our LA takes a very pragmatic view that (whilst it is important to protect and maintain trees of beauty & a certain stature) it is actually more important to ensure people can live happily and safely with them.
Consequently, they rarely seem to refuse well-made applications for tree maintenance. They will also allow a tree to be felled if it can be shown that it is dangerous or causing other trees to not thrive (by cutting out light, competing for water etc). A lot will depend on how good the application is and the mind set of the TPO officer.
If you have any influence over the choice of tree surgeon it might be worth using a company used by your LA to carry out work in public spaces (parks / along highways etc) - they will have lots of experience of making submissions to carry out work on trees protected by TPOs and will also be well qualified to carry out the work without further damage to either your or your neighbour's property.
Today it took me from 7am 12 o'clock to arrange new Internet connection at new house and disconnect current Internet at this house. I could sort neither before as we did not know until Wednesday when we would be moving. So we are moving 30 th and the earliest I can get connected is 6thFebruary and VIRGIN MEDIA who do not have cables at new house are charging me 138 pounds cancellation fee!!!!!
Mini rant! Got a card in the post to say our electricity will be off from 9am to 4pm on Monday . In January! We currently still have lying snow and can't go out as I'm having a load of hay delivered. It means careful planning: fill all thermoses before 9, get in loads of logs for woodburner, put a pan of water on top. Moving the hay will keep me warm (!), but will have to keep coming in to feed the stove, as OH is disabled and can't do it. I suppose I can't complain if they are doing it to maintain the supply, but could do without the extra hassle!
BM that does sound a bit steep! You'd expect to pay something, but how do they justify so much?
Oh buttercup days that is awful, my rant is nothing compared to yours
Could a neighbour or friend help you bring in lots of logs before Monday? Don't be proud to ask xx
Thanks BM, it's not that bad - they are all out in the shed, just got to fill a few boxes and bring them in , the woodburner gets through them really fast. Good thing we have it though or there would be no heat at all. We actually cooked most of Christmas dinner on it one year when we had a long power cut on the big day. Luckily the bird was well on its way to being done, after an early start, so that was finished on the barbecue. Like Australia, except we had snow!
my neighbour put their chopped up xmas tree in my green bin!!!!!!! 3 inch trunk!!! AAARRGGHHH!!!!!!!! i took it out and left it by bins, was going to be kind and bag it up next day but they moved it... i put a note on my now full bin saying no bigger than a pencil thick and the bin won't be emptied til may, i really want a hot composter,....
I wouldn't be best pleased at that one Rosemummy, have they apologised? Our collection starts in March. However my bin fell into the lorry aparently at the end of last season and a new one hasn't been delivered yet. Hubby has already had to make two trips to the tip. Maybe you neighbour would like to do a tip run and take his Christmas tree with him.
We have to pay around £40 a year for our green waste bin - I think I'd ask the neighbour for a contribution if they used it!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What a cheek, it wouldn't have been quite so bad if they'd asked first!
We have a bin for garden waste which is emptied every 2 wks. We would be allowed to put something in that thick, but chop the tree up rather than put it in whole. Our local tip also shreds old xmas trees during January.
They asked once last year when i first got it and seem to think it's ok to use the whole time now, they don't garden just chop bits off randomly when their garden doesn't look perfectly neat ( no flowers not my kind of thing at all!), i don't mind them putting in my jasmine which goes over into their garden but the never offer to contribute, oh well, could be a lot worse!