Did you know that in 2019 the deeply corrupt Council stated that there were only 131 trees in Sadders subject to Tree Preservation Orders (TPO's). Yes, you did read that correctly - just one hundred and thirty one!
What is a TPO?
A TPO is intended to protect trees of high amenity or nature conservation value from being cut down of otherwise mismanaged eg. by excessive lopping or other damage. They must be viewable from a public place. A tree should be protected if its removal etc. would have a significant impact on the local environment and the enjoyment of it by the public.
Further information can be found via The Woodland Trust:
There are also some excellent local campaigning groups (often set up to stop bent Labour destroying green spaces) and I am sure some of them may be very happy to get involved here. Do be careful though, some - like Warley Woods - are Labour fronts/crony organisations (even though the comrades considered shafting them to build the white elephant paddling pool lol!)
I will come onto the subject of Council-owned land in a minute but Spring is coming so get out there folks, identify any trees that should be saved in the Sandwell urban dystopia and contact the TPO Officer at SMBC. Kim Bromley-Derry, the very highly-paid Interim Chief Executive, is currently making it difficult for me to make simple enquiries of the crooked Authority, but I am told the relevant contact is byron_clews@sandwell.gov.uk
What if the tree is on Sandwell Council land?
There are two problems here - one a very major one.
Back in 2012 Sandwell produced a Report on Sandwell Golf Course by an independent firm. At paragraph 4.4 the authors mysteriously referred to many of the trees there being subject to TPO's. Yet when the Brandhall (a different course - or former course, since Labour closed it) campaigners (yet another group fighting bent Labour's plan to destroy another large green space) asked about TPO's there, the written response was:
"Trees owned by the Council and on Council owned land are not made subject of Tree Preservation Orders so none of the trees on the site are subject to Preservation orders."
ADDENDUM 08/02/22 - I am indebted to Clive Heywood who has confirmed that the report mentioned above relating to "Sandwell Golf Course" does, in fact, refer to Brandhall (specifically referring to the Course with the entrance on Heron Road.) This raises the question why Consultants stated some of the trees on the course WERE subject to TPO's and why bent Labour now say there are NO TPO's on trees on Council-owned land? On the latter comment - remember that YOU are the real owners of the land not the chainsaw comrades!
AND: Clive has also set up a new Facebook Group "Save Sandwell's Trees" to stop Labour destroying yet more nature in Sandwell. Please join it ! Here's a link to the new Group:
Not only is this directly contrary to what was said about Sandwell Golf Course but it is horrifying noting how chainsaw-happy Bostan and his mates are - and therein lies the crux of the issue.
There should be no need to apply TPO's in properly functioning, democratic, councils since such bodies will carefully consider environmental damage when considering planning issues. But, of course, Labour Sandwell is as bent as f*** and during the Cooper/Eling/Britton/Stevens/Bubalo era Labour subverted the proper operation of the Planning Department as they did with the rest of the failing Council. You will see above that they were so desperate to p*ss multi-millions up the wall on the ludicrous Commonwealth Games pool that they desperately searched for ANY greenfield site they could destroy. As it was, they rigged the whole process to shaft Londonderry Fields and rush to build the White Elephant with no strategic planning or concern for costs at all.
Here's a tweet from the Londonderry campaigners who were simply steam-rollered by "green" - lol - Labour.
We have seen very recently that Cllrs Costigan, Zorro Hughes and "Lachrymose" Luke Giles worked behind the scenes for a considerable time to destroy Goldicroft Park in Wednesbury with absolutely no consultation with local residents whatsoever. (The residents only found out via a leak from a concerned employee.)
Brandhall and Lion Farm - two huge sites are targets on Bostan's destruction list. This just can't go on or the ONLY green spaces left will be Warley Woods and Sandwell Valley (and we have seen above that even Warley Woods was not considered sacrosanct by the sleazy "socialists").
The Woodland Trust very kindly communicated with me on this issue. One line in their email is telling:
"Local Councils can place TPOs on trees on land they own. However, some councils might not deem it necessary, as councils rarely apply TPOs to their own trees as they will usually point out that trees on council land are already adequately protected from mismanagement."
Of course, in Sandwell we can see that Labour have subverted the law - and Planning Law - at will and the trees on SMBC land are not protected at all. In fact, they are in grave danger of being destroyed at Brandhall and Lion Farm as I write.
Thus I am appealing to Sandwell folk to not only look for lovely, mature, trees on private land but also on Council land and to apply for TPO's asap.
But there remains a big problem, firstly bent Labour are likely to object to TPO's and, secondly, it is bent Labour who enforce the TPO law. If Bostan and Co want to destroy huge green spaces they will not care about a few trees - as graphically shown at Londonderry.
By submission, however, is that ANYTHING that helps protect the trees is worth a go. We have seen brilliant campaining groups springing up to fight the vicious 47-year dictatorship and any extra weapons in their armouries are worth having. Bent Labour will still try and get their way regardless of what local people want but, by law, they will have to publicly negate any specific TPO's we can all work to obtain. We can fight back against this scum (copyright Angela Rayner), tree by tree.
Let's do this Sandwell! Maybe a Facebook Group could be set up to co-ordinate applications to the corrupt Council and to ensure that Labour comply with the law for once?
Please let ne know how you get on and if there are any problems - why not join this blogs Facebook Group for easy communication - The Sandwell Skidder - Speaking Truth to Power. And I will be working with Lion Farm folk not only to save that vital green lung but to try and get some of the trees there listed.
Message to Anonymous Correspondent
To the person who wrote anonymously recently. As above, Kim Bromley-Derry is preventing me from having a sensible dialogue with SMBC and so I have contacted a third party organisation to intervene, and they have confirmed they are sending someone to have a look.
Bring on the Commissioners!
I will be writing seperately about the crisis engulfing bent Sandwell Labour who have until 11th February to convince the Government not to put the deeply corrupt Council into "special measures".
A worried Cllr Bostan asked at the recent Council meeting how bent Labour could look after the corrupt staff. It seems that he might be too late since I have been receiving communications from worried staff - anonymously and otherwise - dubbing in some of the Labour cronies who have got away with murder at the taxpayers' expense over many years.
Names are coming in about the errant SEND contract employees who surely must all face some sort of immediate disciplinary action (although some are apparently on long-term sick leave - no doubt on Union advice)?
Of course, the smart employees will get out before any Government Commissioners are appointed and, hopefully, there will then be mass sackings of the remaining dross. Please continue to keep the names coming of the more useless Labour cronies so that I can pass them on to the Commissioners if that time comes. There are various methods to communicate with me as set out below.
This was one recent social media direct message I received which I have very slightly altered to protect to anonymity of the employee:
"The next question you should ask is about [named employee]. S/he looks after [redacted] and puts the "rim" into "rimmer" ... [redacted]. Cllrs say to him/her to jump and s/he literally asks, 'how high'."
Hopefully s/he will soon be one of the first to be shown the door!
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