Dying Ash tree on verge between 15 &17 Sawpit Hill
Reported via desktop in the Dead/diseased tree category anonymously at 13:16, Monday 30 June 2025 using FixMyStreet Pro
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7785933.
I reported this dying tree a few years back. There are several dead and rotting limbs overhanging the footpath and Sawpit Hill is a bus route with more frequent double deckers. I am continually picking up branches that are knocked off. It is dying and in a dangerous condition.
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.
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 13:17, Monday 30 June 2025
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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
Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 14:11, Monday 7 July 2025
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