However, the authority can encourage good tree management, particularly when determining applications for consent under a Tree Preservation Order.

The local planning authority cannot require maintenance work to be done to a tree just because it is protected. As with owners of unprotected trees, they are responsible for maintaining their trees, with no statutory rules setting out how often or to what standard.

Owners of protected trees must not carry out, or cause or permit the carrying out of, any of the prohibited activities without the written consent of the local authority. Revision date: 06 03 2014 What are a tree owner’s responsibilities? In the Secretary of State’s view, cutting roots is also a prohibited activity and requires the authority’s consent. If consent is given, it can be subject to conditions which have to be followed. Of trees without the local planning authority’s written consent. Tree Preservation Orders – general What is a Tree Preservation Order?Ī Tree Preservation Order is an order made by a local planning authority in England to protect specific trees, groups of trees or woodlands in the interests of amenity. If you’d like an email alert when changes are made to planning guidance please subscribe. Where plans are being prepared under the transitional arrangements set out in Annex 1 to the revised National Planning Policy Framework, the policies in the previous version of the framework published in 2012 will continue to apply, as will any previous guidance which has been superseded since the new framework was published in July 2018.

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