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Agenda
10am Welcome by Andy Tipping, LTOA Chair
10.10am Chris Ryder, LB Bromley, update from LTOA planning working party about Enforcement Guidance
10.30am Questions
10.35am Jessica Stocks, Kensington and Chelsea, update from Diversity and Inclusion working party about the National Tree Officer Survey
10.50am Questions
10.55am Andrew Hoppit, Forestry Commission, OPM update on new boundaries and latest understanding of distribution
11.15am Questions
11.20am Tea and Coffee
11.45am Patrick Welsh and Bruce Saunders, Saunders Seasonings, Wood Too Good to Burn – Repurposing Felled Street Trees into Quality Furniture
12.10pm Questions
12.15pm Mark Lane, Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, Elms4London Initiative
12.40pm Questions and then lunch in a local pub
This seminar is for LTOA members only
The Environment Act received Royal Assent in November 2021. While most of its provisions came into force on the 9th of January the duty on local authorities to consult on the felling of street trees will be implemented sometime in mid to late 2022. Prior to this Defra intends to hold a public consultation on guidance for the duty to consult provision sometime in Spring 2022. This guidance when published will assist local authorities in their preparations for being ready to implement the duty when a date is set. The guidance will provide timescales and advice on how to interpret the requirements of the duty imposed. This guidance will be in addition to the Forestry Commission’s Operations Note: Advice to local authorities on evidencing exemptions to the need for a felling licence. The England Tree Action Plan sets out further actions on making improvements to how trees and woodlands are better cared for as part of government policy.
It is estimated that 40 million trees in the UK have been surveyed and the data stored in local authority databases. Data for just 1.1 million of these trees are included in the UK's and world's largest open-access tree database, Treezilla.
Tree surveys are carried out for different purposes and often to different specifications. Many tree data collection protocols and methods overlap in their recommendations but differences between them make it difficult or impossible to compare, combine, or reuse data.
To address these problems in 2019 the COMMUNITREE project partners drafted a new data standard for surveys of individual trees. The steps taken to develop the data standard are described in detail in Developing the Individual Tree Data Standard.
Standardised tree data collection and recording will enable people to easily share their data so that a single dataset can be recycled for many purposes.
The Individual Tree Data Standard is a partnership between Forest Research, the Open University, and Treework Environmental Practice.
For more information https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/urban-tree-benefits/individual-tree-data-standard/
On 16 December 10am - 12noon
10am Welcome by Andy Tipping, LTOA Chair
10.05am Russell Horsey, PlanIT Geo, Using the TreePlotter suite to manage your trees and help you set deliverable planting targets rather than political "soundbites"
10.20am Questions
10.25am Mark Entwistle, Kaarbontech, Better Tree Management
10.40am Questions
10.45am Rachel Judge, ra Information Systems, Manage it all with Ezytreev
11.00am Questions
11.05am Carl Warner, Arbortrack, Arbortrack Web LTOA Presentation
11.20am Questions
11.25am Roger Leverett, Confirm, Intelligent Tree Management with Confirm
11.40am Questions
11.45am finish