Tree has died, rotten and fallen down - others have overhanging branchess
Reported via desktop in the Open spaces category anonymously at 10:33, Wed 22 May 2024
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council 2 months, 2 days, 1 hour, 56 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 6005697.
Please can you conduct an inspection for remedial treatment - one of the tree has died, rotten and fallen down covering the footway and the others have severely overgrown/overhanging branches that interfere with our garden maintenance.
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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. 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.
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 10:33, Wed 22 May 2024
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Update
We have reviewed the issue reported and have amended the category; this will ensure your report is directed to the most appropriate team at the council.
State changed to: For Triage
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 08:34, Thu 23 May 2024