Fixed
Outside 3 Clinton crescent hp217jn
Sent to Aylesbury Town Council 2 days, 23 hours, 16 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 9285367.
Tree overgrown, branches dangerously low over footpath and hanging over run up scratching and damaging cars parked there. Has been reported numerous times on this site. Have been told last year that it was being dealt with already, then later last year that someone was coming out to investigate and now told I can pay to sort it myself. Not willing to pay as it is not my tree. Please resolve soon as possible as damage to cars and pedestrians heads is getting worse.
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. 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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Update
We have reviewed the issue reported and have amended the category; this will ensure your report is directed to the most appropriate team at the council.
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This is an update on your report.
We have completed our inspection of the issue and have made arrangements for it to be resolved within 6-8 weeks.
We will update this report once the work has been completed.
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Update
We are very pleased to say that the issue you reported has now been resolved.
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.