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ADVANCE NOTICE OF TREE WORKS

 

Thursday 17th February 2022 

 



 

Falmouth Town Council uses a proactive approach in the management of its tree stock. We engage an expert consultant to periodically carry out full inspection surveys for each of our sites, to assess the risk of significant harm from a tree or branch fall.

 

The Council undertakes to replace trees in numbers in excess of those that need to be felled and has an annual tree planting programme which sees many trees of interesting unusual variety planted over each Autumn/Winter season.

 

Following full tree surveys of our sites carried out in late 2021 and the grant of planning permission from Cornwall Council, Falmouth Town Council would like to give residents advance notice of tree works:

 

 

Dracaena Avenue Sports & Recreation area

 

A prominent Copper Beech located (in the first group of roadside trees at the of the bottom of the site) with the fruiting bodies of the fungus meripilus on each of the 4 quadrants of its rootplate is to be dismantled. Meripilus is a fungus that attacks the roots and core wood of the tree causing them to rot and the tree to become unstable; with the extreme likelihood that the Beech would fall onto the A39 it is considered to be an unacceptable risk.

 

Kimberley park



The vast majority are proactive tree management works to extend the life and improve the condition of our tree stock, safety works to prevent injury to the public and sadly but required under biosecurity procedures the felling of 2 lime trees that have advanced symptoms of Phytophthora to help prevent the spread of the disease. One golden Cupressus exhibiting coryneum canker and one Lawson cypress both of very poor form are also to be felled.

 

605 LONDON PLANE – Early mature/Large

Crown lift to 4m

 

606 ENGLISH OAK – Mature/Large

Remove broken branches

Mulch to 100mm to dripline

 

612 SMALL LEAF LIME – Mature/Large

Fell to base

Grind out stump

 

613 SMALL LEAF LIME – Mature/Large

Fell to base

Grind out stump

 

614 LONDON PLANE – Mature/Large

Crown reduce SW crown from 10m to 7m

 

616 BEECH – Semi mature/Large

Remove broken branches

 

618 BEECH – Semi mature/Large

Remove stem

 

619 SMALL LEAF LIME – Mature/Large

Fell to base

Grind out stump

 

621 GOLDEN MACROCARPA - Semi mature/Large

Section fell to base

 

626 EUCALYPTUS – Semi mature/Large

Remove broken branches

 

633 LAWSON CYPRESS – Early mature/Large

Section fell to base

 

635 SCOTS PINE – Mature/Medium

Remove broken branches

 

642 CHAEMAECYPARIS – Mature/Large

Section fell to base

 

643 GRISELINIA – Mature/Large

Crown reduce NW side from 8.5m to 6m

 

897 COMMON ASH – Semi mature/Medium

Remove deadwood

 

G3 SMALL LEAF LIME – Semi mature/Large

Remove north tree

 

G4 MONTEREY PINE – Mature/Large

SMALL LEAF LIME – Mature/Large

Remove epicormics growth to 4m

 

G5 CHERRY – Semi mature/Large

LAWSON CYPRESS – Semi mature/Large

Remove dead stem

 

G6 HOLM OAK – Early mature/Large

EUCALYPTUS – Early mature/Large

SYCAMORE – Early mature/large

GOLDEN MACROCARPA – Early mature/Large

Remove broken branches

 

Gyllyngdune Gardens



No mature trees need to be felled on this site, some smaller self-set trees will be removed from the quarry face in the lower garden as there isn’t sufficient rooting environment for them to mature without presenting a danger in the future. The minor amount of other works are proactive management works.

 

879 TURKEY OAK – Mature/Large

Crown reduce SE split limb from 8 – 7.5m

 

880 MACROCARPA – Mature/Large

Remove broken branches above road

 

881 TURKEY OAK – Early mature/Large

Remove stem epicormic growth

 

883 HOLM OAK – Young/Medium

Remove

Grind out stump

 

884 TURKEY OAK – Early mature/Large

Remove large diameter deadwood

 

A 1 TURKEY OAK – Young/Medium

HOLM OAK

MONTEREY PINE

Coppice broadleaf trees

Remove Pine

 

G2 TURKEY OAK – Mature/Large

MACROCARPA

Crown lift to 4m

 

 

Falmouth Old Cemetery

 

There are 3 dead mature trees that are to be felled on this site.

There’s a number of small self-set Willow, Holly and evergreen Oak causing damage to graves that need to be cut to the ground.

Again mostly the works detailed are proactive tree management works to extend the life and improve the condition of our tree stock and safety works to prevent injury to the public.

 

1000 BEECH – Early mature/Large

Remove

 

1001 HORSE CHESTNUT – Mature/Large

Remove

 

1004 SCOTS PINE – Early mature/Medium

Remove large diameter dead wood

 

1005 PRUNUS KANZAN – Mature/Medium

Severe Ivy

Remove large diameter dead wood

 

1007 HOLM OAK – Mature/Large

Re pollard to 300mm above old pollard points

 

1012 HOLM OAK – Young/Medium

Coppice

 

1015 HOLM OAK – Mature/Large

Reduced failed stem by 2m

 

1017 SCOTS PINE – Semi mature/Large

Remove broken branches

 

1018 COMMON ASH – Young/Medium

Remove

 

1019 HOLM OAK – Mature/Large

Pollard to 5-6m

300mm above previous pollard points

 

1020 HOLM OAK – Young/Medium

Remove

Treat stump 

 

1021 HOLM OAK – Young/Medium

Remove Ivy

Treat stump

 

1022 HOLLY – Mature/Medium

Crown reduce to 5m

Retain for dead wood habitat

 

1024 PAULOWNIA TOMENTOSA – Young/Medium

Coppice

 

1041 SYCAMORE – Semi mature/Large

Sever Ivy

Crown reduce W stem to 6m

 

1048 BEECH – Early mature/Large

Prune to clear structure

Crown lift above ground level to 2.5m above path

 

G3 HOLM OAK & ASH – Young/Medium

Prune to clear structure by 2m

 

G4 GREY WILLOW – Young/Medium

Remove

Treat stumps

 

G8 SYCAMORE & ASH – Young/Medium

Coppice

 

G13 SYCAMORE – Young/Medium

Coppice

 

G21 ELM & SYCAMORE – Young/Medium

Fell all dead Elms

Severe Ivy from Sycamore

 

G24 MACROCARPA & MONTEREY PINE – Early mature/Large

Severe Ivy

Remove broken branches

 

G25 MACROCARPA & MONTEREY PINE – Early mature/Large

Remove broken branches

 

 

 

MORE INFORMATION

 

The consultant we use is accredited to use the Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA) which uses a process developed by Mike Ellison at Cheshire Woodlands, that applies established and accepted risk management principles to tree safety management.  The system moves the management of tree safety away from labelling trees as either ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’ and thereby away from requiring definitive judgements from either tree assessors or tree managers.  Instead, QTRA quantifies the risk of significant harm from tree failure in a way that enables tree managers to balance safety with tree values and operate to predetermined limits of tolerable or acceptable risk.

 

By quantifying the risk from tree failure as a probability, QTRA enables a tree owner or manager to manage the risk in accordance with widely applied and internationally recognised levels of risk tolerance.  QTRA further provides a decision-making framework which considers the balance between the benefits provided by trees, levels of risk they pose, and costs of risk management.