FOI request (FOI206293)

Trees

Requested Tue 07 February 2017
Responded  Tue 07 February 2017

a) Do you know how many individual trees the council own or are responsible for?

b) If so, how many? (please exclude woodland/forest type areas from the answer).

c) If not, please give an approximate number.

d) If possible please split the number between highway, housing, authority land/buildings, and park areas.

e) During financial year beginning April 2015 - to end March 2016 how much money did the council spend (£ excluding VAT) on tree work activities such as pruning, felling, and bracing/support.

f) During financial year beginning April 2015 - to end March 2016 how much did the council spend (£ excluding VAT) on tree planting activities.

g) During financial year beginning April 2015 - to end March 2016 how much money did the council spend (£ excluding VAT) on arboricultural consultancy activities such as tree surveying, decay detection, subsidence investigation, etc.

h) During financial year beginning April 2015 - to end March 2016 how many authority owned trees were felled?

i) During financial year beginning April 2015 - to end March 2016 how many trees were planted by the authority?

j) Across all departments, based on a normal working week how many persons are employed by the authority with responsibility for the management of trees such as; managers, tree/ arboricultural officers; surveyors? Please include any persons employed through PFI contracts servicing the authority. When answering please detail how many persons in which departments, the job role and how many hours per week, on average, are dedicated to tree management.

k) If persons are employed through PFI contracts, please confirm how many?

Response

(a) - Information not held (b) - Information not held (c) - 11,000 (d) - 5,000 highways, Information not held on the remaining trees (e) - £85,000 (f) - £1749.00 (g) - None (h) - 186 (I) - 24 (j) - 1 Tree Officer plus Administration support. (k) - N/A