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Welcome to the LTOA website
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Capital Asset Value for Amenity Trees (CAVAT). CAVAT provides a method for managing trees as public assets rather than liabilities Read More -
How to Become a Member
Members can attend, for free, the the LTOA meetings which are held four times a year and cover a wide range of tree related matters. Read More
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The London Tree Officers Association
Welcome to the LTOA website. The London Tree Officers Association (LTOA) constitutes the professional & technical voice for London's trees & woodlands. Its aim is to enhance the management of the Capital's trees.
We hope that you find the LTOA website both interesting & informative. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
LTOA members seminar 26 March 2021
Agenda
10am Welcome by Andy Tipping, LTOA Chair
10.05am Jim Smith, Forestry Commission, Update on The England Tree Strategy and the Environment Bill
10.20am Richard Pearce, Forestry Commission and Grayham Tindal, TfL and LTOA Executive committee member, London Urban Forest Plan
10.45am Questions
10.55am Jon Ryan, LB Islington Covid impacts on treework applications and planning
11.25am Questions
11.35am Jess Stocks, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and DIWP member, LTOA Diversity and Inclusion working party report launch
11.55am Questions
12noon Finish
This seminar is for LTOA members only.
PEFC Trees Outside Forests Consultation
PEFC UK, with the assistance of a small working group are in the process of developing a standard for certification of ‘Trees outside Forests and specifically trees within an Urban environment'. This will be an appendix to the already endorsed national sustainable forest management scheme, which is the UK Woodland Assurance Standard (UKWAS). The UKWAS has been adapted, with the grateful consent of the UKWAS Steering Group, to meet the requirements of the appendix in the PEFC International SFM standard (PEFC ST 1003: 2018) which covers ‘Trees outside Forests’. The consultation draft is out for your consideration. It is hopde that once established, the standard will become an independently certified benchmark for councils and local authorities around the UK.
The consultation will last 60 days from 5th Jan 2021. After this period, the draft will be revised according to the feedback and comments received and submitted to the PEFC International for an Independent review and approval. https://www.pefc.co.uk/news_articles/pefc-trees-outside-forests-consultation
We will be pleased to receive your comments in the attached excel form until the 6th March 2021. Please send to Alun Watkins at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
London Tree Officers Association seminar on 27 January 2021
10am Welcome by Andy Tipping, LTOA Chair
10.05am Harry Watkins, Director, St Andrews Botanic Garden, What do we know about the origin of our urban trees? – A north European perspective.
10.30am Questions
10.40am Cathy Watson, Chief of Partnerships, Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Regreening and restoring trees to a 4-way highway in Nairobi.
11.05am Questions
11.15am Neil Ross, City of Stockholm Transport Department, Oak connectivity part of the Greener Stockholm initiative.
11.40am Questions
11.50am Finish
This seminar is for LTOA members only
London Urban Forest Plan
The London Urban Forest Plan has now been published on the London Urban Forest Partnership page
