The Planning Portal announced today:<\/p>\n
The new Tree Preservation Order (TPO) regime for England involves two key
\nchanges from the proposals for more streamlined and consolidated arrangements
\nconsulted on two years ago, the Department for Communities and Local Government
\n(DCLG) has announced.<\/p>\n
First, the Government has decided to increase the default period for the
\nduration of consents for work on trees from one year to two.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will increase flexibility for tree owners and make it consistent with
\nthe existing period for notified work to trees in conservation areas. It remains
\nopen to the local authority to vary this period if appropriate by use of
\nconditions,\u201d explained the department.<\/p>\n
Second, DCLG has determined that there should be a requirement for a tree
\nowner other than a statutory undertaker to give written prior notice to the
\nlocal authority of their intention to carry out works authorised by an
\nexemption, unless there was imminent danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis requirement was present in pre-1999 TPOs and recommended in guidance.
\nThe prior notice (by e-mail or letter) will not be onerous and will provide the
\nlocal authority involved with an opportunity to require a full application if
\nthere was doubt the exemption applied, and therefore potentially may avoid
\nlitigation,\u201d said DCLG.<\/p>\n
The TPO system provides the principal regulatory means for protecting trees.
\nLocal planning authorities make and manage TPOs which prohibit the cutting down,
\nuprooting, topping, lopping, willful destruction or willful damage of protected
\ntrees without an authority\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n
The revised arrangements are designed to create a consolidated system that
\nwould apply to all orders by:<\/p>\n
The new regime also includes a new model order. The new regulations, entitled
\nthe Town and County Planning (Tree Preservation) (England) Regulations 2012,
\nhave been laid before Parliament.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Planning Portal announced today: Revised tree preservation regime finalised The new Tree Preservation Order (TPO) regime for England involves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[183,116],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-news","tag-news","tag-tpo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}