TPO/Conservation area

[Doobop]

Does anyone know if there is a way online that we can check if a property has any TPO's on the trees or if they fall under conservation area

Or do we still have to ring the local council office?

 

Thanks in advance

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Start with the webpage of the area council you need - they're generally all different! (A classic example of bureaucratic inefficiency!)

[Gary Prentice]

You may be lucky, several of our local authorities sites are under construction and have been for over two years, some we can't access because we use the wrong browser and some just don't appear to have one.

 

Try searching TPO's first, you may get a link to search a map. If not they may be in a layer in an UDP interactive plan

[Jon Heuch]

Does anyone know if there is a way online that we can check if a property has any TPO's on the trees or if they fall under conservation area

Or do we still have to ring the local council office?

 

Depends on how much you are prepared to pay and how long to wait?

 

ALL TPOs other than those recently served should be registered as land charges so a search of land charges (via the same Council but a different department) should give you the information; it's what solicitors do when someone purchases a property. It will cost you but it won't raise the interest of the Council to go and have a look at a tree. You might be unlucky to just get a yes or a no but you might get more as to which trees are protected.

 

There are also companies that will do the search for you.....but they will charge you more than you need pay.

 

search under land charges on the relevant council website and you should find out how to do it.

 

As for whether you could rely on that information if you felled a tree recently included in a new TPO.......it would all depend on the circumstances, but if the Council wrote to you to say there were no TPOs and not in a CA.....

[Luke Quenby]

Magic map

 

http://magic.defra.gov.uk/

 

Defra map, you can put all different layers on like sssi, felling licence and conservation areas etc etc. Easy to use and tons of land based info.

 

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Magic map

 

Magic

 

Defra map, you can put all different layers on like sssi, felling licence and conservation areas etc etc. Easy to use and tons of land based info.

 

 

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That is a cracking link! Super

[Johny Walker]

if yr unlucky & need to use bradford council i feel yr pain , it not the site its the muppet they have in the validation office ,

[Luke Quenby]

That is a cracking link! Super

 

 

It is very helpful. I first stumbled across it a few years back, cuts out trying to extract information from your local council and because it's under the defra umbrella it's (generally) up to date and covers a multitude of things [emoji3]

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

if yr unlucky & need to use bradford council i feel yr pain , it not the site its the muppet they have in the validation office ,

 

That's a shame, it was a real good authority to work with when Jonathon Cocking was there as the TO.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

That is a cracking link! Super

 

I should perhaps of qualified my comment - I'm not sure I'd use it for TPO accuracy, but brilliant for a whole raft of other stuff!!

 

Good share VMT!