Tree Preservation Orders. These are written orders made by a local planning authority (e.g. a borough, district or unitary council or a national park authority) which makes it an offence to cut down, top, lop, uproot, wilfully damage or wilfully destroy a tree protected by that order without the authority’s permission.
The purpose of a tree preservation order is to protect trees which bring significant amenity benefit to the local area. An order can protect anything from a single tree to all trees within a defined area or woodland. Any species can be protected, but no species is automatically protected by a tree preservation order. Data is available via the link below, to access the CSV file for this data please click on the arrow next to the data source, and click ‘Download’