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RE: msc project

Subject: RE: msc project
From: andrew wyllie
Date: Dec 23 2004 14:41:15
From my limited (6 months in position) experience as a TO in planning, this
area gets a considerably lower salery than TO in charge of street trees.
Also there appears to be less of us.
As for which areas have the most TPO's my view is that the affluent areas
have more because these are the areas that have the space required for trees
to reach some where near their potential. The average ex council house with
its shoe box garden would not feasibly support a tree of significant amenity
value with out causing unreasonable amounts of problems to the owners.
Also with the higher desity housing being pushed alot of back land
developemnts are occuring, these often are in backgardens. Only the
affluent areas have lage back gardens worth developing so therefore its
these areas in which trees are coming under threat leading to new TPO's.
thats my take on the issue as I while away my last fews hours at work before
Christmas. 

Andrew



From: "Dominic Scanlon" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk>
Reply-To: uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Subject: RE: msc project
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:08:00 -0000


Scott wrote:

> Scott wrote:
>
> <I still maintain that TPOs are coincidental to, rather than
consequential 
> to, socio-economics. TPOs are where the trees are.>

>Actually that was Jerry.<

Sorry Scott - slip of the fingers.


<Thanks for that explanation.  Certainly the staff time is going to be
higher where TPOs are.  Are there any common ratios of TO salary, etc and
"field" expenses in management programs?>

Perhaps a TO should answer that - they get very high salaries ; )
Most LA's have a pay structure that is very rigid and worked out on a point
type system - the more responsibilities you have the more you get.  People
who operate a budget tend to get more points but it is not an ideal system.
There are gaps in it and arbs tend to fall through them.  This system is
supposed to be fair but its rigidity can be farcical.

Dom



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