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Thanks gents

Hiya everyone, Firstly, thank you for your contributions, so far and as stated above I am more than happy for anyone to jump in on the debate. Reading back, I think I may not have been clear. The idea is to create 20 TPO's based on the ward boundaries. All the trees that are subject to current TPO's (that date back to the 1950's) would be re-assessed to ensure that: They are still there and; They still require protection. I would also include any trees that have not been subject to TPO previously, that have amenity/ecological value. So, instead of having over 300 TPO's we would have 20 geographical based ones that includes all the trees from the previous 300 or so. Should, in the future, a tree that is not protected require it, it would be added to the geographical TPO by a variance rather than creating a new TPO. Likewise, should a tree require removing. In essence we will only ever have 20 TPO's that are live documents by variance, but the number of trees protected will go up and down accordingly on each of the 20 TPO's. Rather than being static documents. The TPO's become live documents. Adam - I take your point on trees in Conservation Area. I had the same conversation with my boss and he didn't agree. Best wishes, Lee

Daltontrees: Some of our TPO's were carried out before TEMPO or other method of determining a TPO (other than what was said in the legislation) was introduced. I mentioned it here as even though some of the trees in the past had been TPO'd they might not meet the requirements of TPO if carried out using TEMPO methodology.

By all means. If anyone other than a TO has an opinion, then please share.

I work as a TO for a LPA and I'm looking to review our TPO's, some of which, date back to the 1950's. We currently have in excess of 300 TPO records over a relatively small Borough. One of the issues I am looking at is ensuring that our TPO's are constantly under review and relevant. My thought is to carry out an exercise to reduce the number of TPO's down to 20 that would be geographically based on the ward boundaries of the Council. The older TPO's would be resurveyed using the TEMPO method and where appropriate the trees brought in to the new TPO's. The idea of this is to ensure that the TPO's remain current by using variations rather than a process of continual review, revoke, remake type system (there's only one of me). Obviously, the T, G and W classifications would be used rather than the area one as this is only meant for short-term protection. So my questions are: Do you foresee any problems of managing TPO's in this way? Are there any other LPA's that manage their TPO's in a similar way? How do you keep your TPO's reviewed and relevant? Thanks for all your help in advance, Lee