8 Park Valley Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1BQ
Front garden mature Willow (salix alba) with ground-level co-dominant stem.The willow presents with a heavy lean towards a footpath that gives access to and from the residence. The customer is concerned with lean but would like to to retain the tree in-situ as it adds considerable value to the property and local amenity. The customer is against removal would prefer the tree not to pollarded as it would adversely alter the trees character and lose the privacy it provides from neighbouring properties.To help retain the tree in its position a considerable crown reduction is suggested by a) Significantly shortening the leaning primary stem to its marked point on photograph 4. It is hoped that reducing most significant area of loading it will alleviate pressure on the ground level co-dominant union and extend the lifetime of the tree. Routine maintenance of epicormic growth will then be required to manage the future regrowth from this pruning point.b) Pruning, shaping and thinning of the retained upper canopy is suggested to help form a more centralised canopy above union and retain customers wishes for privacy. The smaller footprint of the tree would also be beneficial if the union was to fail in the future as it would be away from footpaths.c) The leaders from the other co-dominant stem currently interfere with other trees and extend over the steps and gate to be reduced back to tie in with the new canopies shape from works of point a) and b).d) The tree currently requires routine maintenance of dead-wooding throughout the crown(s).