Trees - arboriculture and preservation orders

If you are planning to remove or prune a tree, our Planning and Building Standards Office can tell you if it has a Tree Preservation Order (TPO).

If there is a TPO, the arboriculture team will visit and let you know if the work you want to do is appropriate. If you live in a conservation area, you will need to give your local planning office six weeks' notice before you intend to prune or fell trees. There is no charge for a tree preservation order.

If you think a tree or group of trees should be protected, you should contact your local Planning and Building Standards office, explaining where they are and why you think they should be protected. We will assess your suggestion based on the contribution the trees make to the area.

We have provided plans of Tree Preservation Orders for South Lanarkshire, which are known to be valid and legally enforceable. This list is not exhaustive.

Many of the TPOs have been highlighted to make identification easier where adjacent to or overlap others. Only the TPOs listed in the sections below and on the individual map titles are valid. Other TPO numbers you may see on the periphery of the maps may not be valid, and you should check the lists. For other TPO enquiries, please contact Planning and Building Standards Headquarters.

These maps have been digitised from paper plans, and users of this data should not assume this data is accurate. They do not form part of a legal TPO document.

A TPO is made by the Local Authority, under Section 160 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, and within the procedures set out in the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2010. They are made to protect individual trees, groups of trees or woodlands that have particular amenity value, make a significant contribution to the landscape or townscape or because there may be a potential threat to the trees.

In deciding which trees qualify for protection, the local authority must ensure that the trees contribute to the amenity and attractiveness of an area and are under threat in some way. Either individual specimens or groups can be protected in a single Order. More information and guidance on Tree Preservation Orders and Trees in Conservation Areas can be found in Planning Circular 1/2011: tree preservation orders - gov.scot, which provides an overview of the TPO procedures, explaining how the requirements from the Act and Regulations fit together.

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