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David Cameron promises public sector revolution
Private companies, voluntary groups and charities will be given the right to run schools, hospitals and vast swathes of council services under ambitious plans to end the “state’s monopoly” over public sector work, David Cameron announces today. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8337237/David-Cameron-promises-public-sector-revolution.html
Tree Surveys, which survey for the local authority manager?
In regard to which tree survey is needed clients might find this simple table useful in setting a clear brief. Local Authority Managers need to distinguish between simple asset and specification registers and surveys associated with new housing or arboricultural implication and liability surveys for claim management purposes. Which Tree Survey
Public sector officials must do more to reduce the number of successful appeals made against them
Public sector officials must do more to reduce the number of successful appeals made against them, the chair of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council Richard Thomas has said. Pointing out that the majority of appeals were found in favour of the appellants, Thomas said that public services had a duty to save public money [...]
Planning Conditions and trees – contract that condition!
Arboricultural method and materials statements flow from the granting of planning consent, with conditional requirements relating to the protection of trees and should always be read in conjunction with the planning approval and all plans and tree tables, as amended and approved by the Local Administrative Planning Authority. This Arboricultural Method and Materials Statement refines the [...]
Arboricultural Method Statements – Planning Condition Considerations for Tree and Planning Officers
HOW TO ; SEQUENCE OF OPERATIONS—ARBORICULTURAL METHOD STATEMENTS The following information informs the timeline and key principles for operations based on development proceeding and the key assumptions in relation to authorities to order or manage works: 1.) Pre-commencement site meeting and site supervision: Prior to the commencement of site clearance, demolition, storage of plant, materials, [...]
Councils need to chose their tree survey providers with care!
Tree survey – defining the standard There are many arborists, landscape architects, foresters and assorted contractors selling a tree survey service – but what is a tree survey? Is it a botanical tree survey as a census, a condition survey for tree work, a gross defect survey for liability management, a full health and safety [...]
The Tree Officer
Wonderfully dry and observant http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p005ddtt
Tree Preservation Orders – local government should beware
Tree Preservation Orders – Proposals for streamlining 2010-2011 The Coalition Government now intends with the support and advice of its expert civil servants at the Department of Communities and Local Government (I feel a name change coming – anyone for the Department for the Big Society), is to radically reform the Tree Preservation Order process [...]
London super-council ‘could save £100m a year’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11603545?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Cuts without reform will leave £20 billion shortfall at the frontline – LGA
http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=13748140 Frontline council services face a funding shortfall of up to £20 billion a year by 2015 if budget cuts in the Government’s spending review are imposed without reform of the way the public sector operates, local government leaders warn today. A submission to Chancellor George Osborne by the Local Government Association, an all-party organisation [...]
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