TPO Just imposed Help!

[isdesigns]

Does anyone know what I can do to stop this.

 

I have a plot of land at the side of our house that is ideal as an infill plot for building a house.

 

We live in a rural location and the local council (Newcastle-under-Lyme) has repeatedly refused the application on the grounds of "Unsustainable Location".

 

Local barn conversions, huge extensions, Farmers new houses, no problem! A small house for my 85 year old mother (30 miles away), not a chance.

 

The latest outline application has been followed up with a TPO received yesterday on a copper beech tree on the plot which will now make the development of the plot much more difficult.

 

Before anyone replies with "You should have chopped it down long ago" I know that now - it was a mistake not to.

 

I believe the council have imposed the TPO to stop the development, and not to protect the tree, which is only about 40 years old.

 

Reading the notes, I also understand that if the tree causes damage in the future I will still be liable despite the council imposing the TPO! This surely cannot be correct?

 

HELP. Any advise gratefully received.

 

Thanks

[daltontrees]

Your recent poll and thread about this was very much in my mind as I posed this question. In your thread all the contributirs seemed to thrash out a realy useful perspective on compensation claims but I realise now I was left with a slightly unsatisfactory lurch about whether the dodgy-tree owner should put it in his diary to bang in a TPO application once a year to make sure he doesn't lose his statutory rght to claim compensation.

 

Up here where we have a new form of government that doesn't question the recommendations put to it by the Cilly Servants, we have this riduculous 6 month period for claims; i challenge anyone to find a circumstance in which a claim for compensation could be succesful.