urgent help with hedges in a conservation area

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

About five years ago we felled some semi-mature sycamores on a secondhand car pitch. No TPOs or in a CA. We also cut to ground a short length of hawthorn hedge (approx 3m x 2m tall) which was in very poor condition. Before we could finish the hedge we had a visit from TO who then proceeded with an emergency TPO on three remaining stems of approx. 2m tall x 75-100mm thick!

 

Sounds like an attempt to secure some replacement planting maybe, or hoping for some good regrowth, OR acting under (local) political influence.

[treequip]

I am not saying the LA would or even could do this but, I know a hedge in a posh part of Wolverhampton that has a 'covenant'.

 

How that works exactly and what the consequences would be I have no idea:confused1:.

 

Covenants are a pants idea for protecting trees, anyone wishing to enforce the covenant would have to satisfy the courts that they were entitled to the benefit of said covenant.

 

Not as simple as it sounds and pretty expensive.

[skyhuck]

Arn't covenants only put on as a condition of a planing consent, so the LA could not put one on a hedge, unless the owner was seeking planning content for something.

[treequip]

Arn't covenants only put on as a condition of a planing consent, so the LA could not put one on a hedge, unless the owner was seeking planning content for something.

 

A covenant is a promise or agreement but in the legal sense they are placed on land (usually) when it changes hands.

 

If the LA sell the land then they can place covenants but they can’t make them as part of planning conditions.