My thoughts Ben are that tree officers are not immune from the downturn as
councils freeze recruitment and make staff cuts. Leicester planning Services
are already planning redundancies though I don't know what their arb
complement is. Bound to be less development site work of course, but I'd
expect to see domestic orders falling off as well, at least the work relating
to shade and other peripheral aspects. I started trading in the late 70's in
what I think was a recession and it seemed to me that domestic tree work
generally was not a householder priority.
As to the capitalisation and size of contractors, I'm not sure that matters:
a big firm may shed a hundred posts, or a small firm just the one, but the
losses remain relative.
Edmund Hopkins
Tree Officer
Planning Services
Nottingham City Council
Ben wrote
Councils burnt in Icelandic bank collapse so tree surveys possibly cut back
too............The posts on forum are mostly from council employed tree
officers. This is not intended as a dig just an observation, so what of the
contracting community, are we at risk of losing them and there skills ?
Traditionally in such a cash calamity it is the commercial forestry sector
that takes the pain as the trees can be left standing till markets return,
Arb contractors have not had to experience this sort of down turn before or
am I wrong ?
Just thinking aloud an wondered what you lot thought.
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