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Our vision is to be the Institute of Choice for Highway Engineers. Our mission is to provide professional development opportunities, support and leadership for individuals to achieve and maintain professional recognition.

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  • We’ve been registering engineers and technicians with the Engineering Council since 1972 and accrediting academic courses since 1989. We’re proud of our long history and provide our members with 50 plus years of highways experience.

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The IHE Highway Engineering Academy offers industry-led training in highway engineering. Through one of our specialist training courses leading to an industry-recognised Professional Certificate or Diploma, the HEA delivers the qualifications, skills and knowledge demanded by the highways industry which are in short supply today.

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Events

Industry Event

Online: Trees and the law  in plain English – what we all need to know

  • CPD Value: This event is awarded 2 CPD Hours
Dates Location Cost (ex VAT)
Wed 23 Sep 2026 Online via Zoom FREE Book now

Full Details

Date: 23rd September 2026

Time:  2-4pm BST

Place: Zoom 

Trees and the law  in plain English – what we all need to know

One of the most watched seminars from 2024 was about tree protection, but there are wider issues relating to tree law. We carried out a survey to identify the legal issues relating to trees that most concern TDAG members.  Apart from the perennial issues of subsidence and trees and highways, the three main areas of concern that we will explore in this seminar are:

  1. Conservation areas versus TPOs
  2. Safety and risk
  3. Conflicts with neighbouring land owners including boundary issues including loss of light

In this seminar we will outline the issues so that all of us engaged with urban trees are better equipped to retain our existing trees and extend the urban forest.

Chair:  Sarah Dodd, Founder and CEO, Tree Law (confirmed)

Understanding the protection for trees in conservation areas versus TPOs

Sarah Dodd, Founder and CEO, Tree Law

 Tree risk and safety – exploring the psychology of how risk can be perceived and the likelihood of it occurring

Ana Farewell, Environmental Psychologist, Maplesky

Resolving conflicts – trees, hedges and neighbours

Charles Mynors, Lawyer; author The Law of Trees, Forests and Hedges

Knowledge Partners:  AAICFIHELI

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