The London Tree Officers Association (LTOA) have announced a newly elected Executive Committee to head up the Association for the next two years. The committee will continue to develop and support the management of London’s trees. For full details of the new committee and to read their short biographies, click here.

Jake Tibbetts Richard Edwards Andy Tipping Dave Lofthouse Oliver Stutter  
Rupert Bentley Walls Paul Akers John Parker Pat Langley Rhodri Jones  

The committee’s new chair, Jake Tibbetts, is the Team Manager for Arboriculture within the London Borough of Islington with the new vice-chair, Richard Edwards who is Trees and Woodland officer in the London Borough of Croydon. The chair, vice chair and committee members Dave Lofthouse (Merton), Andy Tipping (Barnet), Oliver Stutter (Southwark), Paul Akers (Westminster), Rupert Bentley-Walls (Hackney), John Parker (Transport for London), Barbara Milne (Westminster), Patrick Langley (Wandsworth) and Rhodri Jones (Tower Hamlets) will drive the Association forward over the next two years, developing tree management within the Capital and promoting the activities of the Association.

Jake Tibbetts, new chair of the LTOA said: “It is a challenging time to be a tree officer, with less resources available and increasing pressures across all activities. This makes it more important that we have an active, engaged and collabarative membership. Members should seek and share all the help, advice, support and training facilitated and provided by the LTOA. By working together, we can support each other during these challenging times and continue to improve the care of our city’s trees”.

How to Become a Member

Members can attend, for free, the LTOA meetings which are held four times a year and cover a wide range of tree related matters.

Click here to find out how to become an associate member