When I was talking with Glen from Q-Build I spoke of a situation where the building was subsiding and cracking.
Would the supervisor just call Q-Build and request underpinning or would Q-Build send a building engineer out to write specifications for remedial works?
Then if the qualified builder ignored engineering standards and build the wrong thing would Q-Build take further action and demand repair/reinstatement if not prosecution? Of course they would.
But this is just a tree and every ones an expert on them, part of the criteria for the pruning ... from the ignorant in charge was so it would bush up nicely. I knew that had to be in there.
I also assimilated the qualified arborist doing malpractice to a builder doing the same. They may be qualified but it doesn't mean they are working to regs/standards.
This is another extremely typical display, in a very very busy place. This is govt ignoring their own rules and responsibilities. This is Brisbane, where the boat rockers are the trouble makers and the hacks are best mates. Read the front page of that tree services website. How many references is there to quality, integrity, govt quality assured bla bla bla ... to me that is fraud and lies. Then you see the picture of their own yard, the tree they pruned in high visual display.
And you know what, theoretically they haven't broken a law. A standard perhaps but that's open to opinion as you can clearly see and even endorsed by govt as acceptable as in this case. When the govt themselves buries their heads in the sand you surely have little chance of improvement.
BCC has the keys to the city on TPO's, State govt on licencing etc ... so I'll take the fight to them, but don't hold your breath .... we're just disgruntled tree loppers to them. |