Oxburgh Hall Stoke Ferry Road, Oxborough, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE33 9PS

Proposal

This is a large tree growing adjacent to the picnic area. On Saturday 24th August staff noticed that a large bough had split from the main trunk of the tree, bringing other branches down and landing on two picnic tables. This has occurred between 5pm on Friday evening and 10.00am when ticket office staff arrived for work.; High winds had not occurred and it is believed that it is the phenomenon known as â¿¿Summer branch dropâ¿¿ which caused the bough to break. ; The tree surgeon cleared up the debris on Tuesday 27th August. In conversation with him and the siteâ¿¿s ranger the need to re-evaluate the safety of the tree in light of a large weight being removed in the form of the bough, could compromise the remainder of the tree. Therefore there was a need to trim back other branches to â¿¿re-balanceâ¿¿ the tree. Hugh Coggles, tree officer, of Breckland District Council visited the site along with the tree surgeon, Chris Hotson, on Wednesday 28th August. Work has been agreed to remove some of the lower limbs to reduce the weight, along with remedial works to the trunk close to the fracture.; Turkey Oak 2; This is a tree of similar but larger stature within the actual car park. It is thought beneficial for the tree that some reduction of the outer branches is required. Work has been agreed to take some of the end weight up to 2-2.5 metres around. This is also for the safety of people in the car park and for people accessing the footpath to the church; Lime 3.; Remove the lower branches which are interfering with car parking space and visitors accessing the church.; Horse Chestnut 4; A young tree within grassed operational area. Remove lower branches to enable tractor to cut grass; Copper Beech 5; Large tree in area immediately adjacent to the â¿¿Private No Entryâ¿¿ entrance. Need to remove secondary growth due to need for a 5 metre clearance adjacent to a highway.; Sycamores 6; Large trees, in a large target area (adjacent to a service road, the Pantry seating area in the car park, and volunteer/staff pedestrian route adjacent to the kitchen garden.) The northern sycamore closest to the service road has had work to reduce the outer limb due to a decaying fungus, Dryad Saddle in the past. It is felt that this needs reducing further and in so doing, the best solution for the tree and the one adjacent to it is to reduce both heavily to alleviate the weight and height.