10 Misbourne Drive Great Missenden
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 9972970.
Illegal cutting of trees that are on public land. The tree branches have been illegally cut by the resident of the above address. I spoke to planning at BCC and they said there was no planning permission given. The trees are on public land on Misbourne Drive. The person that was cutting them down had no proper equipment, and never closed the public footpath off. The tree is perfectly healthy. Yes maybe the branches were touching her house, but surely she should of got permission. This has set a president for other residents to do the same.
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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An initial assessment has been made and further work to investigate this enquiry is required. This should be completed within the next 28 days.
Please be assured we will continue to monitor the issue in line with our Highways Safety Inspection Policy.
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.