Fixed
Want's cutting back
Reported via desktop in the Private Tree overhanging highway category anonymously at 12:25, Tue 21 June 2022
Sent to Bromley Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 3612443.
Defecating and urination under the tree, hidden behind the lower growth, it is getting to be a joke.
Updates
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Thank you for your report, this is now being investigated. Information on our services and the timeframes we aim to respond in can be found: http://www.bromley.gov.uk/ fixservices
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Bromley Council at 12:26, Tue 21 June 2022
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Thank you for the enquiry, No action is to be taken regarding the reported tree, please note that as outlined in our Tree Management Strategy (https://www.bromley.gov.uk/ downloads/ file/ 3334/ tree_management_strategy_2016-2020) the Council will not prune trees in relation to the following:
• Branches overhanging properties - residents have the right to exorcise their right under Common Law to prune back branches to their property boundary;
• Where a tree is thought be overly large;
• Interference with satellite, TV or other media reception;
• Branches and/or limbs in physical contact with telephone wires - telephone wires are plastic coated and faults on the line are very rarely caused by contact with branches;
• Excessive leaf fall: this is a seasonal problem and residents are expected to clear any leaf litter falling on their properties themselves. Leaf fall on the highway will be addressed through our street cleansing regime.
• Fruit fall: this is a seasonal problem and residents are expected to clear any fruit falling on their properties themselves. Fruit fall on the highway will be addressed through our street cleansing regime.
• Problems associated with pollen.
• Excreta caused by insects or birds: honeydew (aphid excreta) and bird droppings are not sticky sap are not recognised in law as a ‘legal nuisance’
• Obstruction of view: there are no rights associated with maintaining trees in accordance with maintaining views in British law
• Lack of light: there is no ‘Right to light’ (or shade) in British law.
State changed to: No further action
Posted by Bromley Council at 10:26, Thu 23 June 2022
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We have investigated this report and have made contact with the report originator to outline further details. This report is now closed on FixMyStreet.
Posted by Bromley Council at 10:28, Thu 23 June 2022
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Thank you for your report, this is now being investigated. Information on our services and the timeframes we aim to respond in can be found: http://www.bromley.gov.uk/ fixservices
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Bromley Council at 14:25, Thu 23 June 2022
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Our contractor has been notified to take the appropriate action.
Posted by Bromley Council at 15:22, Fri 24 June 2022
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The tree is the council's property not private, it is blocking the footpath, I have now tried cutting it back? better not perfect. It still wants cutting it back, their is still someone deprecating? there has not been nobody been as you said so, it needs doing badly.
Posted anonymously at 13:42, Tue 12 July 2022
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Thank you for the enquiry, a job has been raised and is with our contractor to action, I will speak with our contractor to make this a priority.
State changed to: No further action
Posted by Bromley Council at 09:07, Mon 18 July 2022
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Could you please give me permission to cut it back, it is getting a joke now, I am disabled you cannot get a wheelchair past it now, you have promised to get it done from the 24th June it has been used as a toilet now please get it done? Cheers Russell Carter
State changed to: Open
Posted anonymously at 15:26, Thu 1 September 2022
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Thank you for the comment, I will contact our contractor again regarding the job raised and ask them to make this a priority.
State changed to: No further action
Posted by Bromley Council at 10:14, Fri 2 September 2022
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Thank you for your continued patience whilst we work to resolve your enquiry.
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Bromley Council at 09:30, Tue 11 October 2022
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Works are organised for w/c: 28/11/22. Thank you for your patience.
Posted by Bromley Council at 11:01, Fri 25 November 2022
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Appropriate action has been taken to resolve the issue.
State changed to: Fixed
Posted by Bromley Council at 14:43, Tue 29 November 2022
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.