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National Trust, Cheshire Countryside Office, Macclesfield Road, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, SK10 4UB Tel Barker, Richard From: Thompson, Jake Sent: 12 November 2013 16:10 To: 'Widger, Christopher'; '__ ------I\I!Z!!!!-IIIIIIIl:!IIIIi!III!~!!!!~~!~--II!IIIIII':I8I_ Cc: •• ..,.n:1!...,..,~~ Subject: RE:Bickerton Hill - Heathland RegenerationWorks. Dear All I can happily outline our position in the process and what we will expect before approval of the associated Felling Licence Application (FLA). The FLA for Bickerton has been received, we will be using Friday as a site visit to assess the work included within it. The application will be assessed against our Open Habitats policy document 2010, for it's appropriateness. Also I need to make all parties aware of the importance of European Protected Species (EPS), the Birds directive and other protected species (eg.Badgers). Due to the historic sensitiveness of this site we will have to make an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) determination for the deforestation in this project, this will require the NT to undertake screening for issues and addressing any that occur. Under the Felling Licence Regulations the FC aims to process a felling licence in a period of 77 days (Citizens Charter), this is however extendable at our discretion. The application must spend a statutory 28 days on our public register for comment, and any EIA determination will not be made until after this period. Good local screening is key in this process, the ball can start rolling with this at any point, and hopefully already has. I hope this is helpful and outlines some of the process that FC will undertake, it is also worth noting that workloads are high at the moment and staff numbers at an all time low, which will no doubt cause some delay in the processing of this application, although we do endeavour to keep any delay due to staffing to a minimum. Kind regards Jake Thompson Woodland Officer - Cheshire, Gt. Manchester & SE Lancs Forestry Commission I NW & WM Area Office I Linmere House I Delamere I Northwich I Cheshire I CW82JD 01606 324956 I 07899 711011 I VOIP 24956 -----Original Message----- From: Widger, Christopher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 November 2013 15:35 1 T 0: 'r -·---7---.-.-~·~·~~--~n~-~1rm~--~~.'~~w·-~m===~~~~~-''""2ffaeetrm ..mm ~3ga:-_;S',.-~~~ca.~; Th~mpson, Jake Cc: \J tz:w'lttcrt""'" Subject: RE: Bickerton Hill - Heathland Regeneration Works. Dear all Following a conversation with Nathan from Pabo Tree Services this.morning, I just thought I'd contact you to convey his keenness to establish a definitive understanding around the commencement of the contract for the related works at Bickerton. Obviously he needs to plan his firm's winter work programme and needs to build the Bickerton Work in. As yet of course, I have not been able to be categorical in my offer of contract as the HLS still needs to be signed and we need to have the necessary FC permissions in place. Hopefully we can move closer to such a situation when we meet on Friday. Stuart, thanks for the draft documents, I just wondered when you think it likely that we will have sight of a final draft and at what point you anticipate being in a position to sign. Nathan, I attach a copy of a letter which I hope helps confirm our current position. I'll put a 'hard' copy in the post today. Thank you all I look forward to seing you at the end of the week. Regards Chris -----Original Message----• From: Widger, Christopher Sent: 06 November 2013 10:22 To: 1\,. Cc: . TP'C I t ~tt • .,irvc15!!S!4 =~~:m.';''fit'~. Subject: RE: Bickerton Hill - Heatnrano Kegeneratlon vvorks. Thanks for your message. Yes, I spoke to Nathan to indicate that we aim to offer you the contract and I had intended yesterday to put that in writing, but unfortunately things got in the way. I'll do that this morning so you should receive a letter soon. The letter will convey the fact that we have yet to sign the HLS agreement with Natural England, and that the expectation is that this will happen on the 1st December. So the contract for felling works etc can only really be signed on or after that date. I don't at this stage believe there will be any issues with this however. I hope that helps for now. Kind regards Chris Christopher J 0 Widger Countryside Manager, Cheshire and Wirral The National Trust, Cheshire Countryside Office, Macclesfield Road, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, SK10 4UB Tel. 01625 584412 Fax. 01625 587555 Mob. 07770 431872 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-alderleyedge2 . www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-harehill Follow the Cheshire and Wirral team on Twitter NTalderleyedge, NTwirral and NT Chris-W Facebook - Cheshire and Wirral www.50things.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: ~ I dJNiqfIP....~D!t=~51*_.~··· .)mail.com] Sent: 05 November LVl j U~:OLf. To: Widger, Christopher Cc: , Subject: tslcKenonHill - Heathland Regeneration Works. Good Morning Chris, 2 I trust this email finds you well? Nathan and I are busy planning this winter's work programme. We have a couple of big projects sitting on the periphery of our attentions at the moment, in order to resource these projects correctly it would be good to have an indication of your intentions regarding Bickerton. I understand you have given Nathan an indication that unofficially Pabo Tree Services are to be awarded the Bickerton works. Would it be possible for you to give us some sort of confirmation in writing sooner rather than later that this is to be the desired course of action? If you could get back to Nathan or myself by the end of the week via email that would be much appreciated. Kind Regards Consultant Arborist Pabo Tree Services 07545 255 827 Sent from my iPad This email was received from the INTERNET and scanned by the Government Secure Intranet anti-virus service supplied by Vodafone in partnership with Symantec. (CCTM Certificate Number 2009/09/0052.) In case of problems, please call your organisation's IT Helpdesk. Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or recorded for legal purposes. 3 Barker, Richard From: Thompson, Jake Sent: 15 November 2013 15:01 To: 'Widger, Christopher' Cc: Vickers, Paul Subject: Bickerton FLA/EIA Chris Good to meet up this morning and hopefully we can get this Felling licence Application and associated EIA business sorted out within statutory time limits. I would like to keep Paul Vickers copied into this process as it is fairly new to you and 1. Usefully, Paul has knowledge of previous applications and is familiar with potential issues. As I mentioned earlier, this e-mail will outline the process that we have to go through, and I will copy in useful links and documents to help you with your screening. Initially you will need to redraw the maps and re-submit two signed copies to me, I will pass them onto the admin hub if they are acceptable.' If you could apply the extra detail required for EU Timber regulations that we discussed then that would be great. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-9ashvf - will take you to the EUTR pages of our website. Once we have an acceptable application I will process it and have it added to the public register, where it will stay for a statutory 28 for comments. Due to the nature of the work outlined in the application (i.e .. Deforestation) we (the FC) are required to give our opinion as to the significance of this project from an Environmental Impact prospective. http://www.forestry,gov,uk/forestry/infd-6dfkbc - will take you to the EIA pages of our website. Initially, screening should take place to bring any environmental issues to our attention, this should be done by the applicant. I suggest engagement with local communities and user groups through medium that we discussed earlier (local letter drop/notices/web pages/parish council engagement). Once this has been done, we should be able to make a determination as to whether an Environmental Statement has to be called for to satisfy the EIA regs. You do have on your side the fact that the work you propose is being supported by and paid for by NE, and the recently created FC Open habitats policy, please find a link to this below; 1 http://www .forestry.gov. uk/england-open habitats Please feel free to make reference to this new policy document as necessary. With processing time involved with all stages of this application, combined with heavy work loads, best estimates of a hiccup free approval of this licence to be mid-late Jariuary. We will endeavour to keep you informed of any considerable delays in the processing of this application. Kind regards Jake Jake Thompson Woodland Officer - Cheshire East, Gt. Manchester & SE Lanes Forestry Commission I NW & WM Area Office I Linmere House I Delamere I Northwich I Cheshire I CW82JD 01606 324956 I 07899 711011 I VOIP24956 www.forestry.gov.uk 2 Barker, Richard From: Thompson, Jake Sent: 10 December2013 14:03 To: -,*i:' Cc: adminhub.worcester Subject: 010/131/13-14 Bickerton Hill Dear All Please find in the appropriate folder, the PW14, seperate felling details (excel spreadsheet) and a copy of the revised compartment map. This is an application for unconditional felling, which will require an EIA opinion from us in due course - the applicant is currently carrying out screeninq/scoptnq, but we need to get it on the PRo As far as entering on the FLDB goes, as we are still without the new application forms for open habitat conversion, I'll try and document answers to all of the questions it will throw up now.
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