Hi Moray,
No change needed.....the last sentence of para 3.5 of the blue book deals
with
expediency and strategic TPOs
I have to say I'm not convinced by the resources argument. IMO Paul B's
approach (as set out earlier in the thread) offers a much more resource
efficient use of TPOs.
Gl
-----Original Message-----
From: Glyn Thomas <glyn.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk>
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 9:02
Subject: RE: Online TPOs
The thing you've got to consider is do TPOs actually make any difference? Is
their liberal distribution actually ever gonna make a difference to tree
cover? Undoubtedly at the micro-level preventing a dendrophobe from cutting
all his trees down makes sense, but overall do they make any desirable
difference?
I've got a couple of ongoing jobs where tree owners have been put off doing
anything by the TPO ("you can't do anything; it's got a TPO!"), and the
situation where some strategic removals would benefit the retained trees is
common place. Yes I know that a decent TO would permit or even encourage the
strategic removals, but simply isn't how TPOs are currently working.
And not all LAs have a TO, and when they delegate the work to an Artichoke or
a Contracts Manager, TPOs can definitely start to be counterproductive!
Bill.
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