Over size trees, roots have damaged my wall and also damaged the foot path
Reported via mobile in the Tree roots raising a footpath category anonymously at 22:09, Mon 7 April 2025
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7402789.
Damage to my wall/gate, trees need cutting right back/removed. Area has been assessed by councillor Mark Win, pictures taken and also been surveyed by Lewis in February. No work has been carried out as yet but other trees have been cut down/back down the road.
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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 22:09, Mon 7 April 2025
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Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 13:14, Fri 11 April 2025
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