Also, Bill your right, but hang on a moment I've just seen a squadron
of flying pigs over Wrexham. So I guess that's an omen for any
possible pay increases.
-----Original Message-----
From: Moray Simpson <moray.arb@xxxxxxxxxxx.com>
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:13
Subject: Re: Development Plan - Trees/ Natural Environment Topic Papers
Actually Moray it sounds like a wonderful opportunity to do some interesting
reading. But I note Edmund's very pragmatic comments and have to report that
most of the LPA policies I've seen that relate to any of these matters are
simply not very good. It's not that the objectives aren't noble, it's just
that the Politicians routinely seem to assume they've got powers that they
haven't; they routinely seem to think that they can demand people grow hedges
and trees as they see fit, and they don't seem to understand that frequently
the "thing" they're trying to protect doesn't get protected with a TPO
anyway..
By way of an example I'd love developers to be obliged to plant hedges rather
than "close-boarded fences." This can fairly easily be achieved by the use of
planning conditions, but I don't see any way that an LPA can oblige the
eventual owner to maintain or retain it.
Sheffield has got a policy that relates to "green corridors;" essentially
this means that some of the arterial routes through the suburbs are quite
nicely lined with mature shrubs and small trees. The trouble is the LA can no
longer (if they ever could) afford to manage these appropriately so the
people who live adjacent to these are starting to take matters into their own
inexpert hands; I really don't know how these are going to be regarded a few
years hence.
Best of luck with it.
Bill.
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