Scott wrote:
<I still maintain that TPOs are coincidental to, rather than consequential
to, socio-economics. TPOs are where the trees are.>
Probably right - but how can you form a tree strategy for your area if you
don't do a basic stock keep? And that's what this is. You can then focus
your budget accordingly. Whilst I was at Darlington we inspected grass
cutting - lots of complaints from well to do suburbs so lots of monitoring
in those areas. We set up an inspection program to randomly select grass
plots all over the town. This revealed that lots of grass cutting wasn't up
to scratch especially in poorer areas. As a rate payer in the duff area I'd
be pretty cheesed off to think the posh lads were getting all the service
and officer time looking after private trees/grass etc.
And to answer one of Scott's questions TPO trees don't get council funds for
maintenance (generally though some councils offer grants) but they get a lot
of officer time in dealing with applications, and giving advice. Whereas
the Council owned trees tend to be under funded and get less people
resource. I think - but that's another study.
Dom
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