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Re: FORGOTTEN RPA SHAPES

Subject: Re: FORGOTTEN RPA SHAPES
From: Andersonarb
Date: Feb 26 2008 19:05:28
 
In a message dated 26/02/2008 18:40:16 GMT Standard Time,  
mjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk writes:

I  include a copy of the tree constraints site plan and the tree  survey
schedule as Appendices to the AIA.  If I didn't, a lot of the  report would
have very little context.



I dunno if you're blaming the right people here. I write reports for the  
client who will presumably pass it to the Architect/designer. Unless it's the 
 
Architect who's commissioned it of course. I'm not sure whether the LA  
actually 
have the 'right' to see the designer's tools, (ie the  TCP) especially since 
so many LAs regard the Arbs report to simply be  another hoop that they can 
force the applicant to jump through for no real  reason other than box 
ticking.
 
I've never quite decided whether the TCP ought to bother showing RPAs for C  
grade trees anyway, (although the site layout usually shows removed trees). 
And  anyway the RPA ultimately depends on the layout; all a TCP can show a 
designer  is ideal RPAs so they might just as well be round.
 
If you've got a dispute about the Arbs appraisal then you've got to get out  
on site and prepare your case, if it's blatantly inaccurate you can simply  
reject the application, can't you? I seem to get some Planners who are  
determined to never visit a site and just try to work it all out from 
drawings  and 
words.
 
If you've seen hundreds Simon you need some assistance, leastways it seems  
to take so long for a planning appy to get decided my local planners must 
take  
weeks studying them!
 
Bill.



   

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