Strong Collaboration between Professional Planners and Arboriculturists
The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) has partnered with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to deliver Trees in the Planning Process, a half-day seminar on April 13, in Oxford. It will highlight the importance of trees and landscapes in urban greenspace design alongside the considerations of those involved in the planning application process. While […]
TreePans Protecting the UK’s Next Generation of Trees
TreePans is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). TreePans Director, Russell Horsey MICFor, reports on the upcoming conference and TreePans. TreePans “Protecting Trees, Protecting Our Future”. It was really positive to see the launch of the National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC) last year and TreePans were keen to support the second conference, […]
Buxtons is proud to support the National Tree Officers Conference
Buxtons is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). The National Tree Officers Conference offers a great forum for Tree Officers from all over the country to get together to discuss current issues and share their experiences. The conference offers a rare networking opportunity for Tree Officers to meet and share problems and […]
The Biggest Trends Influencing Tree Procurement Today
Hillier Trees is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). While some trends in tree procurement almost never change – like sourcing the right tree varieties at a fair price – in recent years, a number of political and environmental concerns have become much more significant as part of procurement decisions. 1. Responsible […]
PocketGIS ARB
Positioning Resources Ltd is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Does this ring a bell? It’s a wet and windy day and you’re out surveying trying to make notes and mark up a topographic map on a soggy piece of paper and your pen won’t work. To make matters worse once back in the […]
TPOs: Improve your Reaction time and save more Trees
ezytreev is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). It’s early afternoon and you get the tip-off, it might be potential development land or perhaps a private garden with some prominent trees, but word is that the tree fellers are due in the morning. Your next move, and how fast you can make […]
Forestry Commission England’s Tree Health team
Forestry Commission England is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Members of the Forestry Commission England’s (FCE) tree health team will once again be in attendance at the National Tree Officer’s Conference. Following the inaugural event last year, the team is very much looking forward to seeing what the conference has in store, […]
A green future with CityTree?
As a Tree Officer I spend a great deal of time advocating for urban trees and it is hard for me to hear that there is a new green product which claims to improve air quality more efficiently and cost effectively than trees. But Green City Solutions has done this with its new mossy installation […]
GreenBlue Urban are Delighted to Celebrate their 25th Silver Anniversary
The month was July, the year 1992 – A landscape gardener from Hastings, East Sussex having studied horticulture, arboriculture, tree nomenclature and landscape design at Plumpton Agricultural College soon realised there were causes for early tree mortality. On a particularly dry summer he discovered that drought stress was the biggest single killer for newly planted […]
Tree Officer Groups Unite for National Meeting
In Southampton on July 6th the City Council Civic Office hosted a very special meeting at which representatives of tree officer groups from all over the country came together for the first time to discuss a wide-ranging agenda. The London Tree Officers Association (LTOA) recognises that there are common issues affecting tree officers everywhere, regardless […]