The facts
Location: Cumbria
Client: Cumbria County Council
Start Date: September 2004
Construction Value: £87,000
Services provided: Arboriculture Services, GIS
Services
Contacts: Rob Sim, Technical Director
- Aboriculture, James England - GIS / Countryside Services
Manager
The project
Capita Symonds advises Cumbria County Council on
managing its large tree stock including street trees, farm estates,
woodlands with public access, country parks and office
complexes.
We have been surveying school sites for Cumbria for the past
four years and have used a variety of digital data capture devices
such as PDA’s and Tablet PC’s for the inventory collection. In
Cumbria we only collect information on trees of 7cm diameter at
breast height and trees are collected individually or where
applicable they are collected as groups.
Our methodology for this contract is to contact the schools
prior to our visit, walk the grounds with a school representative
which gives us a clear understanding of the survey area. The
surveys use Visual Tree Assessment including the use of Matheny and
Clark scoring system. We were provided with details of who to
report serious issues too so that the school could arrange any
urgent tree surgery works.