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Re: BBC Radio 2 - Tree Survey Discussion

Subject: Re: BBC Radio 2 - Tree Survey Discussion
From: Jerry Ross
Date: Jun 20 2008 16:50:50 
David Evans wrote:

Radio 5 Drive

David Lloyd Jones has just been on representing the Consulting Arborist
Society discussing the new BS.  To save his blushes I shan't comment as to
how it went.
I didn't hear this, but did catch a snatch of Mr Vine and his callers,
and I did read the Times article.
On the whole I get the feeling that the publicity has been quite
effective in mobilizing public opinion AGAINST the proposals 
I will say it's real shame that of all the interviews today where our
industry had a chance to promote itself as being credible and professional,
with a good understanding of risk, it fell flat on its face - sorry guys but
talking to the media is just not something you can wing. 
Does the AA need professional PR representation?
or does the AA need professional PR representation?
(Or does it just need someone to to put forward your views more
effectively, David? ;-) ) 
 Part of the
problem though is the news story was based on the proposed BS which is BS,
and no one was prepared to say the obvious, that having every tree inspected
within 5 years by an expert is a ridiculous, gross, an unreasonable level of
expenditure.
To be scrupulously fair, the draft does say that "Departure from this
recommendation (i.e. 5 years) may be justified where there is
identifiably infrequent access, recorded as such at a strategic level".
So you only need someone to visit low-use sites every now and again, in
order to confirm them as low-use and then record that fact "at a
strategic level" (whatever that means). 
Still, that's a lot of private gardens to be strategically recorded.
And then there are all those urban backwaters to visit.
And every C-class road in country.
farm lanes, forest tracks, moorland paths....

Hmmm...



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