Area of land adjacent to our property and footpath
Sent to Downley Parish Council 5 days, 1 hour, 28 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 6674726.
Large trees are overhanging our property causing a lot of shading. The side of the house is choked by brambles - I have done my best to clear this every year but this is a difficult job and not my responsibility. The grass verge to the front of the area and to the side of our driveway is never cut by the contractors that come round. We have not complained before about this as my husband usually strims the area now and again. Unfortunately he is not able to do this and it looks a mess. I understand that this is a valuable area for wildlife but I do feel that some maintenance is required. I can only recall contractors coming once in the 14 years we have lived here to clear up a bit. Eg regularly cutting the grass, clearing the brambles and ivy that are choking the area and pruning some ot the branches that overhand our property. Thank you .
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.
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