<<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!>>
Hi Bill
I know you have 'in principle' objections to the use of TPOs. In my opinion,
they are a useful tool in managing tree cover, providing they are used
properly. I don't think Paul B was advocating blanket coverage, rather a
strategic approach to identifying and protecting key trees, informed by some
form of landscape (or townscape) character assessment.
Glyn
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