Call for clarity over tree-cutting rules to avert neighbour fueds, as residents are warned more may be cut down under new safety regime
and “before you knew it, they’d put a TPO [tree preservation order] on it”, County Cllr Ali explained.
“There needs to be some mechanism where there’s an understanding of what’s right and what’s wrong, because ordinary people…get caught in the trap between Lancashire County Council and what [their] district council might say,” County Cllr Ali warned.County Hall’s cabinet member for highways and transport, Charlie Edwards, accepted that trees could often become a bone of contention for residents, estimating that there were “hundreds” of tree-related issues across Lancashire.
County Cllr Azhar Ali believes residents have been falling down the cracks between County Hall's tree policies and those of Lancashire's 12 district authorities The authority expects that its in-house team of arboricultural staff will initially be overwhelmed by the additional work generated by the new strategy – both as a result of “legacy” maintenance and work needed because of ash dieback disease.
“We do…have a tree-planting strategy as well, so where a tree is removed from a highway verge, for example, it may not be replaced [in the same spot], but [a new one may be planted] somewhere else,” County Cllr Turner said. Owners of trees subject to a tree preservation order must not carry out or allow any prohibited work without the written consent of the local authority concerned.
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