Information on how to report a issue related to fallen or damaged trees.
Areas where NCC has responsibility for tree management and maintenance include:
The safety of trees on privately owned land adjacent to roads are the responsibility of the owner of the adjacent land or hedge. The County Council is not responsible for trees planted along major trunk roads or on private roads.
Trees are an essential asset and yet can be a highly emotive issue, both in terms of benefits they provide and potential nuisance. Northumberland County Council are committed to managing its trees to ensure public safety is achieved and ensuring available resources are utilised to deal with tree related issues on a priority basis, whilst considering their importance, value and environmental benefit.
Requests for maintenance and reports are set out below under the main areas of service requests. Whilst some of these requests and reports may identify hazardous issues, risk or nuisance, lesser requests may be deemed as low priority.
The Priority Banding explains the urgency of work, and in each category a list of maintenance that would normally fall into that priority/risk rating has been given as guidance. However until the tree has been inspected and the relevant information has been recorded its true priority cannot be established. It is strongly emphasised that these categories and figures are only guidelines which are applicable under normal circumstances only. The occurrence of emergencies, storms and other events beyond our control will take priority over programmed work and this may result in scheduled work being delayed. Click here to view the tree works priority guide.
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