Overgrown trees on Chaucer/Shakespeare Avenue

Updates

• We've looked into this report and are investigating the issue. We will update this report once we decide what action to take.

  State changed to: Investigating

  Posted by Bath and North East Somerset Council at 10:11, Wed 22 July 2020

• Other trees on Shakespeare and surrounding avenues have been recently been "pollarded" but no action taken re trees in question. Please advise

  Posted anonymously at 08:06, Wed 17 March 2021

• Tree works in programme.

  State changed to: Action scheduled

  Posted by Bath and North East Somerset Council at 18:35, Wed 17 March 2021

• Issue was raised nearly 2 years ago but no action has been taken. The trees are becoming very large. Please advise

  Posted anonymously at 16:56, Tue 12 July 2022

• I see you are now proposing to plant more trees in the Bear Flat area (https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/ street-trees-project-consultation/ view-proposals-map) and yet it appears you are unable to manage the trees that are already present. Trees need to be managed - and yet it appears you are incapable of undertaking this basic task. Until you can take responsiblity for the trees you plant, please don't plant any more.

  Posted anonymously at 18:08, Thu 15 September 2022

• Please provide feedback on the tree planting proposal at Bear Flat via the online consultation (https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/ street-trees-project). Responses will be reviewed once the consultation has closed, and feedback considered before the project proceeds.

  Posted by Bath and North East Somerset Council at 09:25, Fri 16 September 2022

• Once again pollarding of "other trees" in Poets area has been undertaken but, once again, no action has been taken on trees in question. Trees need to be managed. Please provide update. When are you expecting to undertake pruning/ cutting back of species of trees that have to date been neglected?

  Posted anonymously at 17:52, Tue 21 March 2023

• This was raised over 3 years ago and yet it appears no action has been taken. Further, other reports of over-grown trees in the area have been made. The rees are your responsibility. Please provide an update

  Posted anonymously at 17:52, Tue 7 November 2023

• Thank you for your report. These trees have been inspected recently and works identified. These works are not safety critical so will be added to our non priority programme for this winter.

  Posted by Bath and North East Somerset Council at 10:25, Thu 9 November 2023

• This issue was raised over four years ago. In that time other trees in the area have been pollarded multiple times and yet no management of these trees, or other large trees of this type in the area, has been undertaken. The trees are overhanging my property and curtailing light. If the issue persists post 1 December 2024 i will arrange for removal of overhanging branches myself

  Posted anonymously at 18:42, Wed 28 August 2024

• You do have the right to prune back the branches overhanging your property to the boundary. Conservation Area regulations apply as this location is within the conservation area of Bath so notification is required. Please follow link below for more information. https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/ conservation-areas-and-planning-restrictions

  Posted by Bath and North East Somerset Council at 11:35, Thu 29 August 2024

• I note last autumn you replied "These works are not safety critical so will be added to our non priority programme for this winter." No work has been undertaken, and yet I note that in that last week other trees in the avenues have been pollarded again Can you advise how many times teams have been out to pollard trees in Shakespeare Avenue since this report was first raised (more than 4 years ago), and how/why some trees are managed whereas others are completely ignored?

  Posted anonymously at 14:12, Sun 24 November 2024