Re: The Looney Labour Magic Money Trees
Some other examples from the ITP report:
Marstone Crescent
ITP Re-inspected 2 trees on 31/05/16
Conclusion:
"We advise that there appears to be no reason to remove and replace this tree, but that one limb should be removed."
Final decision of Streets Ahead Programme
"Replace tree anyway"
Reason stated:
"ITP suggestion does not tackle all issues, site work to date has shown root work in footway to be un- workable. Removal of large section of crown, not desirable"
Bowood Road
ITP report stated:
"The one other tree, outside number 16, appears to be in good condition; we could see no sign of decay. We advise that there is no arboricultural need to remove this trees.
We have therefore considered whether there are engineering solutions that would prevent the need for removal and replacement of this tree. The tree is causing some damage to the pavement. We believe this could be resolved with engineering solutions, including 1, 3 and 12 We advise that the Council could consider this."
The Amey (Streets Ahead) Programme response:
Get another independent inspection into the health of the tree !
Resulting new independent inspection says:
"Independent tree inspection has verified Amey's findings that the tree is in poor condition and should be replaced"
lol !
Abbeydale Park Rise
ITP review of the proposed tree felling:
"We believe that it may be feasible to retain the remaining trees (those outside numbers 2, 6-8, 22-24, 30-32, 36, 39, 42-44, 49, 55, 56-58, 64 and 75) and renew the pavement by a combination of root pruning and excavation beneath the roots (solutions 8 and 10) . This would require excavation, the removal of soil and other material, the selective pruning of roots, depressing the remaining roots and replacing the soil and other material, all to industry standards."
Amey (Street Ahead) Response:
Standard cut/paste response
"After a review of the costs of building engineering solutions to retain trees that involve changes to the highway on a number of sample tree situations the cost of applying similar bespoke engineering solutions which are outside the Streets Ahead contract, across the rest of the highway network is estimated to be of the order of £14-26 million. The Council does not have such additional funding available and many solutions would also be of a short term nature."
Final decision: Trees felled.
and so on and on and on
This is as much about saving £000s that would otherwise have to be expended on fulfilling the contract to maintain the trees.
No-one is objecting to the felling of dead or dangerous trees, but this Looney Labour Council is felling thousands of trees imo because they don't want to foot the costs associated with maintaining them
What next?
Will they line up pensioners and shoot them to avoid forking out weekly pension payments??!!