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CAVAT IN PRACTICE
A days training seminar with the author, Chris Neilan.
Informative CAVAT training seminar on 25th September 2008.
http://www.tma-consultants.co.uk
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Simon wrote:
<Most of the time I don't tag trees because I'm usually doing some kind
of planning related job with a reasonable quality CAD drawing. However
I've just had to do a pruning spec / tender doc for a lot of trees along
a drive, the CAD drawing is OK, but I have tagged them as well, as it
will make life easier for the contractors to price and carry out the
work. >
I now tag everything because I got fed up with contractors/builders etc
ringing me up when they wanted to know which tree is which. Especially
on planning sites because the chances are that several contractors will
need to positively identify the trees. The tag makes it so easy on
site.
Chris wrote:
<The ability to read and draw basic plans is perhaps something missing
from our industry's educational curriculum.>
You clearly don't remember the lecture we attended where Steve Desmond
argued with our group about learning how to do a chain survey, and draw
up the plans. He was met with whinging and whining about how useless it
was. It was the single most useful thing I was taught - I was taught it
at NC and HND level so it was part of curriculum.
Chris wrote:
<But in a planning context tags are of limited use. If the application
says fell the tree with tag 123 on and the tree felled is not the one
the LPA were expecting to be felled, how do you prove which tree had tag
123 on at the time of the application? Probably by reference to a plan
showing the position of the trees and which has which tag.>
Are you telling us that people would submit an application with a tag
number and not reference it to a plan? That's just sloppy. Surely the
point of tagging trees is so that you can show the tags no's on a plan?
Dom
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