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Tree Management Services January 2012 Newsletter
TMS_Newsletter_January_2012 SW In our latest TMS News we look at: Managing Storm Damage Post Storm Walkovers National Tree Safety Group New Publications Focus on Ash trees For more information contact 01206 752539
NTSG The Landowners Guide
National Tree Safety Group Common sense risk management of trees Landowner summary of guidance on trees and public safety in the UK for estates and smallholdings. I have already reviewed the pamphlet for householders which I found to be suspect in aims, objectives and outcomes. In line with review No 1 lets read the document [...]
NTSG The Householders Guide
This first review is on the basis of a guide for tree owners which is a short free pamphlet style document. It is reviewed in its own right as it is suggested that’s what the public will do. There is the typical Forestry approach to trees as front photographic plate with a grand sweeping countryside [...]
National Tree Safety Group Guidance December 2011
The NTSG has finally issued its summary and detailed guidance for landowners and professional involved in tree management. We will be carrying out a detailed review and will keep you informed as to any new issues that arise with the publication of the guidance. It will certainly be seen as authoritative by the Courts and [...]
Trees and Social Landlords Technical Newsletter
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Resources for the Social Landlord -Trees and liability issues
http://www.landscapeplanninggroup.co.uk/our-blogs/land-management/ Our web site blog for Asset Managers has a range of legal decisions and reviews of interest to the land manager.
Felbrigg Hall Decision
Mr Justice Mackay: The National Trust is a well known charity and one of the largest land owners in England. One of its properties is Felbrigg Hall in Suffolk with its surrounding estate. This includes the Great Wood in which there are close to 250,000 mature trees. The wood is used by, among others, schoolchildren [...]
Selwyn Smith v Gompels
This case is interesting in studying how the judge carefully unpicks the relative duties of landowners based on their resources. Selwyn-Smith-v-Gomples-Judgment-2009
Micklewright v Surrey County Council
The Court of Appeal (Mummery LJ, Patten LJ and Hedley J) gave judgment on 28th July 2011 in the case of Micklewright v Surrey County Council [2011] EWCA Civ 922, in which Angus Piper appeared for the Defendant/Respondent. The Claimant’s appeal was dismissed. The claim concerned a tragic fatal accident when a large oak tree [...]
Tree survey approach provides a defence for landowner after death of a child
The National Trust was not to blame for the death of an 11-year-old school boy fatally crushed by a branch in woods in Norfolk, the High Court has decided. Daniel Mullinger, of West Bergholt, Essex, died and three children were injured at Felbrigg Hall, near Cromer, when the branch fell from a tree. He was [...]
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