- Title or Description
- Removal of trees
- FOI Number
- 2024582
- Date Received
- 03/06/2024
- Type of Request
- EIR
- Request or Question
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Can you tell me how many trees the council has ordered to be removed in the last 10 years? I would like information on all trees felled by council departments including those on streets and in woodlands.
And how many have been replanted in that period?
Can you specify how many trees were cut down because they faced insurance claims?
Can you specify how many trees were cut down to allow the construction of housing developments?
if providing stats going back 10 years is not possible can you provide stats for tree felling for the past 5 or 3 years? - Response
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1. Records held by Parks and Environment relate to the felling of trees as a result of planned cyclical surveys (visual tree assessments) to identify safety defects that do, or may, pose a risk to public safety. There will have been ad hoc removals of trees that have arisen for safety reasons during the time period concerned but we do not keep records of all those individual removals, however have included where they do exist.
Numbers of trees felled are:
2015 0
2016 - 4
2017 9
2018 91
2019 14
2020 49
2021 5
2022 31
2023 15
2024 to date 28
Hawick Flood Protection Scheme 390 trees felled
2. Trees planted to replace those felled.
Parks and Environment:
2015 to 2021 0
2022 50
2023 86
2024 to date 41
Selkirk Flood Protection Scheme 10,000 replanted
Hawick Flood Protection Scheme 11,000 replanted
3. No SBC trees felled due to insurance claims.
4. No records held - therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004. The FP schemes alone removed 00 of trees, we adhere to national standards for planning and trees regarding development.
