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Policy NE4: Tree Preservation Orders

The Borough Council will make Tree Preservation Orders on trees whose future is considered to be under threat in the following circumstances:

1. Where removal of trees will have a significant detrimental impact on the environment, and

2. Where trees have rarity value, or value as landscape screening, visual amenity or are valuable wildlife habitats or have great intrinsic value.

9.13 - The Borough Council has the power to make Tree Preservation Orders where they are considered expedient (Town and Country Planning Act 1990). This policy sets down the circumstances under which the Council would normally impose a Tree Preservation Order. Such an order can apply to individual trees, groups of trees or woodland areas.

STATEMENT - TREE PLANTING

9.14 - The Borough Council will encourage amenity tree planting to improve the environment of countryside, town and village. Broadleaf species native to the locality should predominate. Amenity tree planting in the town and countryside is an important means of improving environmental quality. The Borough Council carries out amenity planting in association with its own development projects and has indicated locations which would benefit from new planting by local organisations and individuals.

STATEMENT - WOODLAND AREAS

9.15 - The landscape of the Borough owes much of its distinctive character to the distribution of broadleaf woodland and copses. There is widespread concern that ancient woodlands be adequately protected and managed and that new woodland areas be established to replace the widespread loss of this natural resource over the course of the century.

9.16  - The Borough Council will therefore take appropriate steps to protect and promote the future well-being of woodland areas which are of importance to the quality of the landscape and as wildlife habitats, although apart from Tree Preservation Order procedures, its powers are limited. Woodland management and appropriate new planting will be encouraged.

Chapter 9: The Countryside and the Natural Environment
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