Bill
The précis is pretty much what I have already said. The article actually
relates to subsidence and a tale of unmaintained street trees and highways
etc.
I am of course in complete agreement with your points, however whilst 5837
is a more than adequate platform for assessing trees and in some cases
justifying removal it does require someone with a modicum of knowledge to
complete it. I would suggest that is why people try and make 4.2 it fit for
other purposes. Ignorance is bliss eh?
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Andersonarb@xxxx.com [mailto:Andersonarb@xxxx.com]
Sent: 07 July 2008 14:42
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: trees and buildings
In a message dated 07/07/2008 11:40:47 GMT Standard Time,
nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk writes:
This article makes mention of
the NHBC standard being used to assess the impact of and in some cases to
justify removal of existing trees to facilitate new build.
The mind boggles!
Nick I don't think you should scan and post copyrighted material, however
you could give us a precis. If it's an artichoke writing there's already a
degree of scepticism here.
That aside, why would you use NHBC 4.2 to justify tree removal? From memory
if you've got a now absent tree on a site, you should still be building as
if
the tree was there with the same heave precautions. If you think that
felling
a tree will do you any good when we've no real idea how long the soil will
take to get back to where it was before the tree started growing; well, I
just
don't see how that works..... And what's to stop another tree growing?
Apart
from the patio of course.
If you need justification for felling a tree BS5837 will do quite nicely,
as
will "it's my tree and I'll do what I like with it, unless you can show
there's good reason for it to be otherwise."
Mind boggling? no change there; mines permanently in that state. SNAFU.
Bill.
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