What the LTOA has been working on over the last year 2010 - 2011

• Working with the GLA on the Mayor’s street tree planting programme
• Working with the Trees and Design Action group (TDAG)
• Re designing the LTOA website
• Being part of the Joint Mitigation Protocol steering group who is running a pilot scheme to test the JMP
• Produced Oak Processionary Moth guidance document for tree managers in dealing with this pest
• Working with the Forestry Commission’s OPM outbreak management group
• Held training days on OPM and i-tree
• The LTOA was represented on the steering group for the Arboricultural Research Conference April 2012
• Responded to the TPO streamlining procedures consultation
• Working on the Londoners Love Trees project in partnership with Trees for Cities, The Tree Council and Barcham Trees
• Set up 5 new working parties looking into salt damage to trees, biosecurity, massaria, CCTV and trees, Tree Wardens

Current LTOA working groups:

• Public relations for tree officers to better promote what they do
• Branching Out, the LTOA education pack
• Looking at London’s tree canopy
• Oak Processionary Moth – how to deal with this pest
• Looking at de-icing salt damage to trees
• Biosecurity – threats to trees from pest and diseases
• Massaria and its effect on plane trees
• CCTV and trees
• Setting up London Tree Warden networks

Quarterly meetings (most of these papers are posted on the LTOA website):