On 22 December 2004 11:28, John Flannigan wrote:
Equally you could argue that there are fewer trees in
deprived areas because
no-one ever bothered to protect them in the first place. When
you think that
Housing Associations and right to buy has shrunk Council
estates there has
been plenty of opportunity to extend protection for such trees.
Which in itself might be an interesting thing to look at. Don't just map
the existence of TPOs against socio-economic data, but the date on which
those TPOs were made. Has there been a change? Can this be linked to any
changes in national or local policy? Certainly a previous employer had
systems in place (not particularly robust ones, but systems never the
less) to notify the tree people when council houses went through Right
to Buy and TPO significant trees within the curtilage. I would expect,
therefore, to something of a shift in the numbers of TPOs in less
affluent areas beginning about the time that RTB came in.
--
Chris Hastie
Strategy Officer (Arboriculture)
Warwick District Council
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