Is this usual - restriction on 'lopping' trees?

G_M

poppysarah wrote: »

If they need cutting then get them cut.

If you don't shout about it to everyone you can get someone in and get trees cut down even with a TPO on.
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/trees/faqs

Exactly the same advice could apply to Planning Permission, Buildings Regulations, importing fags from Calais for resale, speeding, taking metal street drain covers to a scrappy, ..........

Don't shout about it and.....you won't get caught.

poppysarah

G_M wrote: »

Exactly the same advice could apply to Planning Permission, Buildings Regulations, importing fags from Calais for resale, speeding, taking metal street drain covers to a scrappy, ..........

Don't shout about it and.....you won't get caught.

It could.
But start asking neighbours 'I was thinking this tree needs cutting down, do you know if it has a TPO on it?'

neighbour: 'no but I like that tree so I'll get a TPO'

you: so I can't cut that tree down now?

neighbour: yes.

mufi

poppysarah wrote: »

If they need cutting then get them cut.

If you don't shout about it to everyone you can get someone in and get trees cut down even with a TPO on.

There's another problem should anyone follow this advice: no reputable company will touch a tree with a TPO, or even the surrounding area, without first checking with the council.

That leaves you with cowboys.

mufi

poppysarah wrote: »

It could.
But start asking neighbours 'I was thinking this tree needs cutting down, do you know if it has a TPO on it?'

But that isn't how the conversation would go. If you buy a property with a TPO on its tree/s, you get a load of bumph about it during the conveyancing period and your solicitor warns you of the implications, in writing. After completion, the council will probably send you yet more bumph, just to ram the message home and to cover their backs.

Unless you are amazingly dim, you don't need to ask the neighbours.

G_M

But start asking neighbours 'I was thinking this tree needs cutting down, do you know if it has a TPO on it?'

neighbour: 'no but I like that tree so I'll get a TPO'

mufi wrote: »

Unless you are amazingly dim, you don't need to ask the neighbours.

:rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl:

stokesley

mufi wrote: »

But that isn't how the conversation would go. If you buy a property with a TPO on its tree/s, you get a load of bumph about it during the conveyancing period and your solicitor warns you of the implications, in writing. After completion, the council will probably send you yet more bumph, just to ram the message home and to cover their backs.

Unless you are amazingly dim, you don't need to ask the neighbours.

Correct. I have an oak with a TPO on it. It has its own thick file of paperwork, all of it received either during the purchase or after completion; my experience is that you cannot have one of these without being fully aware of the consequences of non-compliance. I can't even lean on it for a little breather while gardening; it's unclear whether I'm allowed to speak to it.

Should the little chap start uprooting the house, there is a procedure for appealing. Long and bitter experience of the way these things work lead me to believe that I, and the house, would be long gone before the wheels even started churning.

Yorkie1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-15180985

suebfg

'Without seeing the precise wording of the restriction how on earth do you expect anyone to give a precise answer?

Are you useing a solicitor or doing the conveyancing yourself? If the former, ask - that's what you are paying for! if the latter, don't - you are clearly out of your depth.'

You're rude aren't you?

G_M

suebfg wrote: »

'Without seeing the precise wording of the restriction how on earth do you expect anyone to give a precise answer?

Are you useing a solicitor or doing the conveyancing yourself? If the former, ask - that's what you are paying for! if the latter, don't - you are clearly out of your depth.'

You're rude aren't you?

Sometimes abrupt - possibly borderline rude - if so I apologise.

But both the question I asked and the advice I gave are valid.

suebfg

Well. I'm not out of my depth - quite the reverse actually. But I admit that the conveyancing solicitor is crap and every one I've come across thus far has been the same. Hence I like to carry out my own due diligence these days!