Small island on turning from Parmoor Lane to Hambleden 14 right of way
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 8204394.
There are several large trees on a small island at the turning from Parmoor Lane into Hambleden 14 right of way. Recently several rotten branches have fallen into the road and on looking up, it appears that at least 2 of these trees have multiple dead branches at the top (compared to other similar trees next to them). See photos attached. Please could these trees be assessed and the dead branches/trees removed? There are multiple communication cables that run through this area which will be damaged by further falling branches, in addition to the danger to cars/cyclists/pedestrians from falling debris.
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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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An order has been raised to repair the issue reported, this will be a permanent repair to be carried out as soon as possible. However, there are occasions when a temporary repair is carried out for safety reasons until such time as we can mobilise resources to make the repair permanent.
To ensure the highway network remains as safe as possible we will continue to carry out our regular Highways Safety Inspections which will include this issue until such times as the permanent repair is made
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