Tree Preservation Orders

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Stevenage Borough Council
Last updated:
19 June 2026
Topic:
Environment
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Summary

A Tree Preservation Order (TPO) is an order made by the Local Planning Authority (LPA) in respect of trees or woodlands. The principal effect of a TPO is to prohibit the: cutting down, uprooting, topping, lopping, wilful damage, or wilful destruction of trees without the LPA's consent. TPO's are served on individual trees, groups of trees or woodlands when it is deemed to be expedient in the interests of amenity. They are used to protect trees and woodlands if their removal or changes to them would have a significant impact on the local environment and its enjoyment by the public. As the Local Planning Authority Stevenage Borough Council has powers under provisions in the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act and the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012, to make Tree Preservation Orders. The Law requires that written consent must be given by the Local Planning Authority before any work to a protected tree is undertaken.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2017-08-07
Access contraints
Copyright
Harvest GUID
49396dac-de63-46ac-b54a-7895830cc9f5
Extent
Latitude: 51.9582305233° to °
Longitude: -0.2713966334° to -0.1031684839°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2017-08-03 (creation)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Stevenage Borough Council (originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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application of Tree Preservation Orders 19 June 2026

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