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Do you have the time (and inclination) to do it yourself? You could offer to maintain it for them and then just let the officer know when you were going to do the work - assuming it would only be pruning once a year or something?
If you really want it sorted you could offer to deal with the other dead trees as well to sweeten the deal and get the officer on side.
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edmundro
As a former wood-butcher I know this will work but also know the feeling of trashing a freshly sharpened chain on a ring of coppers that have been absorbed by the bark so don’t think I could bring myself to do it.
Would kill it over 2-5yrs I’m sure but then it’s a standing dead tree which is more of a faff.
I might try and cajole the allotment officer into sending the council tree team. There’s probably 7-8 dead hawthorns across the site that drop branches from time to time…
The rules state that it’s fruit trees only and nothing taller than 2.5m so it should never have been allowed to get that big to start with.