Trees
A good website for identifying trees:
http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/tree-identification/
Beech trees at 32 Jack Straw's Lane
(property, owned by St Hilda's College, Oxford, now used as a Bright Horizons nursery)
One beech tree in the grounds, on the boundary with No. 34, some way back from the roadway, had a fungal infection in its roots and was in danger of falling over. It was therefore felled - photo below was taken on 7 Sept 2017. JSL residents were given prior notification of the felling by leaflets from Iain Critchlow, Head of Asset & Space Management, Estates Services, Oxford University, dropped through letterboxes on 25 August 2017.
A good website for identifying trees:
http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/tree-identification/
Beech trees at 32 Jack Straw's Lane
(property, owned by St Hilda's College, Oxford, now used as a Bright Horizons nursery)
One beech tree in the grounds, on the boundary with No. 34, some way back from the roadway, had a fungal infection in its roots and was in danger of falling over. It was therefore felled - photo below was taken on 7 Sept 2017. JSL residents were given prior notification of the felling by leaflets from Iain Critchlow, Head of Asset & Space Management, Estates Services, Oxford University, dropped through letterboxes on 25 August 2017.
Previously a planning application had been submitted to fell a different, larger, beech tree within the grounds of No. 32, near the roadway (a small part, overhanging the wall, is visible in the photo), based on a claim that it had caused subsidence, A Tree Preservation Order was put on that tree - see below
MWA Arboriculture Ltd submitted an objection (3 April 2017) to the City Council, stating that Crawford and Company (surveyors) were satisfied that the property had been damaged by subsidence due to the moisture demand of the Copper Beech and that further damage was likely to occur, if the tree work were blocked.
A new application was made by MWA Arboriculture Ltd on 28 March 2017, just for crown reduction - Application Number 17/00797/TPO "Reduce Crown of 1No. Cooper Beech Tree by 20% (3m maximum branch reduction) as identified in the Oxford City Council - 32 Jack Straw's Lane (No. 1) - Tree Preservation Order 2017. This was approved on 27 May 2017.
The matter of this Tree Preservation Order (TPO) was put on the agenda for the meeting of the East Area Planning Committee on Wed, 6 Sept 2017 at Oxford Town Hall with a recommendation that it should be retained 'without modification'. Prior to the meeting, in an email to Cllr Ruth Wilkinson, Mr Iain Critchlow of Oxford University's Estates Services stated: 'I am pleased to confirm that now the University owns this property, we are supporting the city council's proposal to place a TPO on the large purple beech in the garden of number 32 which fronts on to Jack Straw's Lane'. Cllr Wilkinson further reported that consequently Patsy Dell, Head of Planning and Regulatory Services at Oxford City Council, confirmed the retention of the TPO under delegated powers.
A new application was made by MWA Arboriculture Ltd on 28 March 2017, just for crown reduction - Application Number 17/00797/TPO "Reduce Crown of 1No. Cooper Beech Tree by 20% (3m maximum branch reduction) as identified in the Oxford City Council - 32 Jack Straw's Lane (No. 1) - Tree Preservation Order 2017. This was approved on 27 May 2017.
The matter of this Tree Preservation Order (TPO) was put on the agenda for the meeting of the East Area Planning Committee on Wed, 6 Sept 2017 at Oxford Town Hall with a recommendation that it should be retained 'without modification'. Prior to the meeting, in an email to Cllr Ruth Wilkinson, Mr Iain Critchlow of Oxford University's Estates Services stated: 'I am pleased to confirm that now the University owns this property, we are supporting the city council's proposal to place a TPO on the large purple beech in the garden of number 32 which fronts on to Jack Straw's Lane'. Cllr Wilkinson further reported that consequently Patsy Dell, Head of Planning and Regulatory Services at Oxford City Council, confirmed the retention of the TPO under delegated powers.