Tree died - risk of falling on person and or property.
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 6319451.
Hello. We live at 1 Edgecombe close (HP21 9UG), and there is a tree on public/council owned grassy area at the side of our property onto Bodiam Close, that appears to have died, or be diseased. We are very concerned it may fall and be a risk of death/injury to a member of the public on the pavement/road, and/or fall onto our property and injure us or our children in our garden, and or damage our (newly replaced!) fence, or house, or if it falls the other way it may risk our neighbours property. We would really appreciate your prompt response due to the apparent risk.
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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.
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