Tree Preservation Order. Made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by the local planning authority to protect trees of importance for amenity, landscape and nature conservation.

Tree Preservation Order. A protective order placed on an individual tree or group of trees (including woodlands) to protect them from felling or damaging pruning work.

TREE PRESERVATION ORDER. The City Council can make tree preservation orders on single trees, groups or woodlands in order to protect the amenity. Consent has to be obtained from the City Council to lop, top or cut down a tree and the City Council can insist that replacement trees are planted if felling takes place. Where trees are not protected by a TPO in a conservation area, six weeks notice is required before topping, lopping or felling trees can take place, so that a TPO can be made if deemed necessary.

Tree preservation Order. An order made by a local planning authority which in general makes it an offence to cut down, top, lop, uproot, wilfully damage or wilfully destroy trees without the planning authority's permission.

Tree Preservation Order. An order made to protect the amenity value of an individual tree or groups of trees.

Tree Preservation Order. Made to protect the amenity value to the public of either individual or groups of trees.

TREE PRESERVATION ORDER. Made by a local authority under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 to protect trees of importance for amenity.

Tree Preservation Order. An order usually made by the City Council to protect specific trees and groups of trees, and with them the amenities of a place, by ensuring that no felling, lopping, topping, or pruning takes place without their permission.

Tree Preservation Order. A mechanism for securing the preservation of single or groups of trees of acknowledged amenity value. A tree subject to a tree preservation order may not normally be topped, lopped or felled without the consent of the local planning authority.

Tree Preservation Order. A direction made by a local planning authority that makes it an offence to cut, top, lop, uproot or wilfully damage or destroy a tree without that authority's permission.