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Tree branches blocking view of oncoming traffic
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 9600458.
The lovely tree to the left of the 2 Site entrance has been enjoying the combination of hot weather and rain and has had a significant growth spurt.
Previously, when you were waiting at the give way to pull out of 2 Site you could look under the lower branches and see approaching traffic from the left. With the recent growth, the branches almost touch the ground and form a complete screen preventing you from seeing cars coming along Bradenham Wood Ln from the direction of Main Road. This isn’t a problem if you want to turn left towards 1 or 3 Site but you need to take your life in your hands if you try to turn right.
The lower branches need a little bit of a trim and everything will be fine again.
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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