Tree Preservation

Summary

A Tree Preservation Order (referred to as a TPO) is an order made by the local planning authority in respect of trees and woodlands.

A local planning authority has the power to make a TPO in Part VIII of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 and in the Town & Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999.

The principal effect of a TPO is to prohibit the:

• Cutting down
• Uprooting
• Topping
• Lopping
• Wilful damage, or
• Wilful destruction of protected trees or woodlands

Online Services

• Guidance and applicatition forms to carry out works on a tree or trees protected by a TPO or in a conservation area.

Further Information

See our main Tree Preservation page.

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