There’s a backlog of necessary work relating to trees on PPA site. In quite a few cases, trees of a type wrongly planted by plot holders, often many years ago, or self-seeded, have been left to grow, and are now a problem. In some instances it would be unconscionable to expect the current plot holder to remove them, but in others not. There’re also dead or dying trees around the site boundary, and otherwise attractive, landscape feature trees, which now have too many large, low-hanging branches causing excessive shade for nearby plot holders.
PPAA Committee have undertaken to begin a programme of works to resolve these difficulties. Volunteers have been able to remove smaller trees and saplings on plots as they’ve become vacant, or where a plot holder had agreed that a given tree needed to go and asked for help to remove it, but the scale of some of the work clearly requires the attention of a professional contractor.
PPAA have broken down the work into classes, and the first one envisaged to be undertaken would be the removal of the most troublesome low-hanging branches of the large trees growing on PPA site beside Road Three, and causing excessive shading to plots 82 to 90. It’s held that the shading can be sufficiently eased without affecting the landscape outline of the trees, none of which – PPAA understand – are subject to Tree Preservation Orders or in a Conservation Area. This will allow PPAA to judge the affordability of the work, and to budget for further classes and extents of work around the site. Plot holders with disallowed trees, that is, excessively large fruit trees, conifer, broadleaf – e.g. oak, ash, bay, hazel, hawthorn – or willow trees on their plots, and who wish to be considered for assistance in their removal, are asked to contact PPAA Committee. (Priority for help is probably likely to be given to plots burdened by larger trees planted or maintained by previous tenants, and depending on demand, the help may have to be rationed, so a reply may not be given for a while.)
Trees – which should be removed – will, from now on, be noted as a matter of course during plot inspections in any case, and the relevant plot holders notified of the need for their removal.
PPA Website Team
I responded yesterday to the plan for tree removal. I could add that I can cut the tree down as I did with another tree. I have an axe and a saw , if it is possible to have assistance with your shredding.
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Hi Alison,
Yes, thanks for your email.
For the first phase of the work a shredder will no doubt be in operation somewhere near the proposed work on overhanging branches along Road Three, and if you were to take the shreddable branches over to it, then I’m sure that they would be processed with the rest, but no one should leave any waste lying anywhere around the site in anticipation of this.
It’s as well to bear in mind that the larger logs will – we understand from the quote – be left for people to use as either firewood, ornamental edgings, or whatever, and your bigger pieces could – I’d expect – be added to those.
When it comes to widespread work on trees on plots, then the budget might mean that such help has to be rationed as described in the article, and so we’d encourage as many plot holders as possible with problem trees to do exactly as you propose to do.
(Until PPAA Committee have gauged demand it won’t be possible to say whether a particular request for help in felling a tree can be afforded, and so patience is advised in awaiting replies to such emails.)
PPA Website Team
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Thank you for this communication. Is there a chance I could be informed near the time of when a shredder might be in operation?
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