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About this survey

Local authorities across the UK could be facing a collective bill of
billions of pounds over the next 15 years due to the ravaging effect of Ash Dieback disease. These cost are for many outside the scope of their
existing budgets, and will therefore put even more pressure on reduced budgets.  

It is estimated that there are between 27 million and 60 million large Ash trees in the countryside outside of woodlands, and it is estimated that somewhere between 75% and 90% of these trees are likely to die, and most will die in the next 10 to 15 year period.

Previously funding had been available from Defra for the management of this disease, however this was withdrawn in March 2020, with no alternative provision for management of Ash dieback being made available.

APSE is therefore looking to gather information from local authorities across the UK as to not only the impact and costs of Ash Dieback to local authorities, but also to make a case to Government that funding be reintroduced to help combat a disease which not only has serious health and safety implications for the public, but also has the ability to significantly degrade the visual appearance of the UK and have more longer term implications for combatting climate change and reducing opportunities for biodiversity, all major national targets for improvement.

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* 1. Have you been able to identify how many Ash Trees in your authority area? If so please indicate below

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* 2. Of the Ash trees identified are you able to provide a percentage estimate of the numbers infected by Ash Dieback?

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* 3. Are you able to provide a number of the Ash trees infected by Ash Dieback/

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* 4. What percentage of Ash trees makes up your area stock?

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* 5. What do you expect to be the percentage of Ash trees lost over the next 15 years?

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* 6. How are you identifying and monitoring Ash trees within your area? You may tick more than one answer.

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* 7. Do you have an Ash Dieback action plan?

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* 8. If you have a copy of your plan and you are willing to share this please
upload here. You can upload a PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG,JPEG or IF file

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* 9. Do you have a dedicated team to manage Ash Dieback within your council?

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* 10. Have you successfully applied for funding for and received funding to deal with the cost of Ash Dieback in your area?

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* 11. Has your council lobbied or made representations to DEFRA or other Government Departments or UK Administrations about Ash Dieback funding?

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* 12. How has the removal of funding by DEFRA impacted on you? You may tick more than one answer.

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* 13. In your own words please tell us about any other issues of concern on this matter that you would like APSE to consider

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* 14. Under which APSE area / country are you from? 

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* 16. Please provide your contact details 

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