Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 19116
Trees: Planning Permission
Tabled: 10 December 2024
Answered: 18 December 2024
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting additional protections to (a) ancient and (b) veteran trees in planning policy.
Answer
Matthew PennycookAncient woodland and ancient and veteran trees are already strictly protected in national planning policy, while Tree Preservation orders safeguard individual trees or groups of trees of particular value. Local planning authorities have the principal resp...
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