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Overgrown Vegetation on Kingshill Roadside
Reported via desktop in the Overhanging branch/tree category anonymously at 08:41, Wed 17 April 2024
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 5863433.
The overgrown vegetation is causing vehicles to veer into oncoming traffic lanes to avoid scratching their cars, posing a significant risk of accidents. Additionally, the protruding branches and foliage are damaging vehicles and obstructing visibility, especially during nighttime driving.
I kindly request that the council take immediate action to address this issue by trimming back the overgrown vegetation and maintaining the roadside greenery to ensure the safety of motorists. Timely intervention in this matter will greatly alleviate the risks associated with navigating this stretch of road.
Updates
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A Highway Officer will carry out an initial assessment of the tree, emergency issues will be corrected or made safe at the time of the inspection, if reasonably practicable to do so. In this context, making safe may constitute displaying warning notices, coning‐off or fencing‐off to protect the public from the tree or other suitable action.
If the inspection team cannot make safe the defect at the time of inspection, then they will instigate the relevant emergency call procedures to ensure appropriate resources are mobilised to make the tree safe. Not all Highway Officers are not qualified as tree experts and in some cases they may need to arrange for a tree surgeon to visit the site and carry out a survey on the tree which can take up to 12 weeks.
There may also be occasions when the issue reported will be classified as a minor defect and does not pose any risk to either the safety or the integrity of the highway, these are called minimum recording levels as specified in our Highways Safety Inspection Policy, in these cases no action will be taken.
We do not prune or remove council owned trees to improve natural light for a private property (including obstruction of solar panels). If you wish to carry out any work on a tree, you must first check the tree is not protected before any work is started. How to find out if a tree has a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) in Buckinghamshire.
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 08:41, Wed 17 April 2024
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Update
We have fully investigated this report, however, we have been unable to identify any issues with the trees in the area plotted on the map.
This may mean the issue has already been inspected and resolved or that it does not present any immediate safety to the public.
State changed to: Closed
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 10:56, Thu 25 April 2024
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.