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  Gary RK March 8, 2011 at 8:38am

  What do you think - ignorance or arrogance of the laws ?

   

  I wonder if money 'does speak' - hope not and that he gets treated just like Joe Public....
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  David Bloomer March 8, 2011 at 8:48am

  i dont do tree's

   

  whats the worst punishment that can be issued for felling trees subject to a TPO?
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  Gary RK March 8, 2011 at 9:19am

  Is that a "i don't do tree's" in a work sense :-)

   

  Max fine is £20k for felling or destroying a tree to £2.5k for unauthorised work to a TPO enforcable tree.

   

  Typically fines are in the low 000's unless repeated offences or complex cases.

   

  Developers often accept the fine to remove a tree causing site layout problems....naughty
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  Graeme @ BGS March 8, 2011 at 9:20am

  Well he has certainly started to undertake damage limitation!

   

  I would like to think it was ignorance but heck who knows! 

   

  The courts have powers to fine anyone contravening a TPO. The maximum fines are £20,000 for destroying a tree and up to £2,500 for anyone who does not completely destroy a tree but has carried out some other works without consent. It is no defence for a defendant to plead that they were unaware that a TPO existed on a particular tree unless the Council were the cause of such ignorance.

   

  I believe that they can also be fined up to the value of the tree felled which could be 10's of thousands if not £100's.

   

  Perhaps this case might just highlight how serious this offence is and make more people aware.

   
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  Dan Frazer Gardening March 8, 2011 at 3:08pm

  I wonder if, when the trees landed, he exclaimed "VOILA!"

   

  :o)
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  Eric Walker March 8, 2011 at 5:37pm

  They keep getting away with it in Poole.
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  Austin Powell-Allen March 8, 2011 at 7:32pm

  On this matter my sister owns a flat and she asked a chap to come round and give a quote for trimming a listed tree. Instead he just cut it told her to phone council and apparantly that was no the first time he did it. She did not pay the bill that he sent through and luckly council did not take any further action against my sister.