Hi All,
Arriving a bit late in this discussion but Jan-Marie is absolutely correct about the councils response saying its ‘out of their hands’ better utter nonsense. As Jan=Marie states its the councils planning department that sets down requirements for developers and others in terms of many aspects including environmental needs/remediation. What they stipulated is another matter of course but they should be able to advise on this and, if the developer is in breach, they can then serve notice and get them to rectify the default.
If they are down to remove trees/hedges they have a limited time frame in which to do this by law (other than in emergencies/special circumstances) so using this netting to circumnavigate this needs addressing.
I see the signatures are up to 212,000 so we it will be debated in Parliament so hopefully there will be a sucessful outcome and this practice outlawed.
