Our task here was the removal of deadwood from roadside trees at Netheravon. In addition, we had to fell a dead ash tree using our MEWP (Mobile Elevated Work Platform).
Category: Tree Surgery
Homeowner ordered to pay £21,000 proceeds of crime order for butchering a tree
This link goes to The Times of 23rd March and concerns a homeowner in Canford Cliffs, Poole, who ignored a TPO (tree preservation order) on his 42-foot oak tree and instead he virtually destroyed it by chopping off 12ft-long branches – all for the purpose of allowing sunlight to the back of his property and on to his new ‘Juliet’ balcony.
So apart from ignoring the TPO and facing the consequences with the council of that; apart from what must have been an extremely dangerous operation to take down 12-foot limbs, the homeowner has been fined:
- In what officials claim is the first case of its kind, a court has ordered the homeowner to reimburse the taxpayer the amount perceived to be the increase to the value of his £1M home, having cut down his tree. In this instance, the increase was found to be £21,000 and this is what he had to repay as proceeds of crime.
- In addition, had to pay £15,000 legal costs
- And the actual fine of £1,200
- So a total of £37,200
Removal of 50 x 50′ conifers and leylandii trees – case study and testimonial
We were delighted to receive this testimonial from Kieran Pierce following the removal of 50x 50′ conifer and leylandii trees and hedging.
Testimonial: “I’m very happy to recommend William Warden and his tree team. What a great
bunch of guys – it just works with the team all being ambassadors for William’s business –
courteous, thoughtful, empathetic to the environment and not noisy. And, of course, highly skilled
in their work. Good job done. Thank you.
For full details of the case study please view here.
Bees in Christchurch, Dorset
We’ve had a busy few weeks in Christchurch, Dorset, giving some TLC, reduction and some felling to 40 oak trees which hadn’t been maintained for many years. We had one surprise, though….
One of the trunks was hollow as it was full of honey! A colony of bees had nested in it, so with the help of the local Bee Society, we needed to move them to a new home. They had to be smoked out at night but leaving the Queen in the tree. We then carefully felled the tree and moved it, the Queen and the honey to its new home, with the worker bees following the lorry with the Queen.
The local Bee Society were just delighted we hadn’t simply felled the tree and rendered the colony homeless… But no responsible tree surgeon would do that, surely?
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