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.