ABSTRACT
In this chapter, unless specified, all references relate to the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) 1990.
Trees make a valuable contribution to the quality of local environments whether they be a single tree or a group of trees. Under s 197 of the TCPA 1990, local planing authorities are charged with the duty to ‘ensure, wherever appropriate, that, in the granting of planning permission, provision is made by the imposition of conditions for the preservation or planting of trees’. To the public at large, trees are generally appreciated as an important element in the landscape when they are growing on land which is removed from the individual’s property; there is frequently less appreciation when they are in one’s own back garden or that of an adjoining neighbour.
