Sorry for being rude Bill...check the time I posted...too many sherbets and
nothing better to do...oh dear...!!!
Anyway, I do see your point about too many TPOs being made which was why I
asked a question previously on how many TPOs other LPAs make.
With regard to your question about TPOs discouraging people from planting
trees, I don't think they do. The vast majority of the public can't think
past next Thursday, never mind 40 years hence when the new tree would be at
a stature where it might be worth a TPO.
Cheers
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Andersonarb@xxxx.com [mailto:Andersonarb@xxxx.com]
Sent: 13 November 2007 10:28
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: Compensation
In a message dated 12/11/2007 22:07:02 GMT Standard Time,
simon_keenan@xxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk writes:
If you don't mind my saying but your posting is rather convoluted and I
would love to enter into dialogue with you if I only knew your exact point.
No I don't mind you saying so Simon. I'm disappointed though; I thought I
was being clear and lucid, but it is a convoluted subject, apparently far
more
convoluted than my razor-sharp-insights realise.
What I'm trying to say is that the TPO system allows an LPA to protect a
tree. It allows them to say "you can't do that" it does not allow them to
say
"you must do this."
So if a Highway Inspector comes round and says "you must do this" (which I
accept he can) and the Tree Owner says "I'll solve the problem by removing
it"
and the LPA say "you can't but you can do this" then the LPA are effectively
specifying work that the Tree Owner has to fund. Why should they, the LPA
not be the ones to pay for it? Owner doesn't want the tree.... He's
prepared to
pay for a one-off, he's not prepared to pay for an expensive quinquennial
procedure.
My concern is that LAs are TPOing far more trees than was ever the
intention
and while I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, I do find the
imposition on the individual as verging on the draconian.
I don't think many UKTC members would disagree desperately with this
appraisal, trouble is most LPAs don't get an Arb to appraise TPOs and they
will see
the TPO as a 'tool of Development Control.'
Does this discourage people from growing trees? I think that ultimately it
must....
Bill.
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