Exactly opposite the entrance to the car for the flats in Cresswell Rd
Sent to Chesham Town Council 1 week, 6 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 7650462.
Very heavily overgrown bushes exactly opposite the entrance to the car park for the flats (first on the right) as you just enter Cresswell Rd. They are actually worse than this street view picture shows and it is impossible for even a single person to use the pavement WITHOUT having to go into the road. The next set of bushes along was recently cut back a bit, but still well over the pavement. Consider wheelchair and child buggy users. It would be absolutely impossible to be safe.
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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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