{"id":999,"date":"2013-03-07T08:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:59:21","slug":"tree-preservation-orders-in-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tree-preservation-orders-in-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Preservation Orders in Your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tpo-blackburn.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1000 aligncenter\" title=\"tpo-blackburn\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tpo-blackburn.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.blackburn.gov.uk\/upload\/img_200\/Oak_tree.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.blackburn.gov.uk\/server.php%3Fshow%3DConWebDoc.18164%26setPaginate%3DNo&amp;usg=__R31CZrJ61JgM7WqEDe--piDjsI4=&amp;h=230&amp;w=200&amp;sz=13&amp;hl=en&amp;start=37&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=dnzWnUIWSEKrtM:&amp;tbnh=108&amp;tbnw=94&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dtree%2Bpreservation%2Borders%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B2GGFB_enGB273%26sa%3DN\">Local Authorities<\/a> can issue a Tree Presevation Order (TPO) making it necessary for the owner or occupier of any land to obtain prior consent of that authority 6 weeks before any lopping, pruning or felling is carried out. <\/p>\n<p>A TPO is designed to prohibit the cutting down, uprooting, topping, lopping, uprooting, wilful damage or destruction of protected trees or woodlands. TPO&#8217;s are issued to conserve and protect trees from development but the cost and excessive control is leaving some trees to die of neglect.<\/p>\n<p>TPO&#8217;s can protect individual trees, hedgerow trees, groups, areas or woodlands buy not hedges shrubs or bushes.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all trees in a &#8216;Conservation Area&#8217; are automatically protected by this legislation. The Forestry Commission have the right to prevent woodland being destroyed and issue licenses for thinning out and felling on your own land.<br \/>\n<strong>Tip<\/strong> &#8211; check with your local authority before embarking on a major tree uprooting scheme. Conviction in a Magistrates Court can lead to a fine of up to a \u00c2\u00a320,000. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8529977763\/\" title=\"Trees by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8225\/8529977763_436e2d2f06.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Trees\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Garamond; color: navy;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Authorities can issue a Tree Presevation Order (TPO) making it necessary for the owner or occupier of any land to obtain prior consent of that authority 6 weeks before any lopping, pruning or felling is carried out. A TPO is designed to prohibit the cutting down, uprooting, topping, lopping, uprooting, wilful damage or destruction of protected trees or woodlands. TPO&#8217;s are issued to conserve and protect trees from development but the cost and excessive control is leaving some trees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tree-preservation-orders-in-your-garden\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-articles","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}