Service Description: Applications for work to protected trees, queries about protected trees, high hedges and tree preservation orders.
Also known as:- Dutch Elm Disease (Trees with Protection Orders), Forest Management, Protected Trees, Tree Conservation Areas, Tree Planting, Tree Protection, Woodland Management
Answer: This serious tree disease has affected millions of trees in Britain since the late 1960s and the Isle of Wight is severely affected. There is no legal obligation to control or report Dutch Elm Disease. However anyone with infected trees is strongly advised to fell them. The council does not do work to elm trees on private land, nor does it provide any funds for landowners to do so. It does remove dead and infected elm trees on its own land. - Related Link