Tree preservation order

Tree preservation order

A Tree Preservation Order or TPO is a part of town and country planning in the United Kingdom. A TPO is made by a Local Planning Authority (usually a Local Council) to protect specific trees or a particular area, group or woodland from deliberate damage and destruction. TPOs can prevent the felling, lopping, topping, uprooting or otherwise willful damaging of trees without the permission of the Local Planning Authority, although different TPOs have different degrees of protection.

They can be made very quickly and in practice it is normal for a council to make an emergency TPO in less than a day in cases of immediate danger to trees.

Legal basis

TPOs were originally introduced in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. Some TPOs therefore are over 50 years old, and still valid. The current regulations that enable TPOs are the Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999 which came into force on 2 August 1999.

Exemptions

The following works normally do not require permission under any TPO:

#Works approved by the Forestry Commission under a felling licence or other approved scheme.
#Felling or working on a dead, dying or dangerous tree (the onus is on the person who authorises the work to prove that the tree was dead, dying or dangeorus - this can cause problems if the tree is felled and removed, as then there is no proof of its condition. Normally this requirement is fulfilled by obtaining a report by a qualified person made before the works are done).
#Where there is an obligation under an Act of Parliament (for example, to maintain a public highway).
#Works at the request of certain agencies or organisations which are specified in the Order.
#Works where there is a direct need to work on the tree to allow development to commence for which detailed planning permission has been obtained
#Works to fruit trees cultivated in the course of a business for fruit production, as long as the tree work is in the interests of that business. This means that fruit trees are not automatically exempt unless they are actively being used for a business.
#Works to prevent or control a nuisance (in the legal sense only).

ee also

*Town and country planning in the United Kingdom

External links

* [http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/tposguide.pdf Government leaflet on TPOs]

ources

[http://www.naturenet.net/trees/tpo.htm Naturenet]


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