The Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1892

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999

Made

30th June 1999

Laid before Parliament

8th July 1999

Coming into force

2nd August 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 199(2) and (3), 212, 316(1), 323, and 333(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1990 c. 8. Amendments relevant to these Regulations were made by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), section 23(6).

(2)

Under section 199(1), tree preservation orders generally do not take effect until confirmed, but a direction may be given under section 201 for an order to take provisional effect immediately.

(3)

Where the Order is to be made under the sections cited and section 300 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, all those provisions should be cited, as should the fact of the consent of the appropriate authority. As to the circumstances in which the consent of the Forestry Commission is required (and should be cited) see section 200(1) of that Act.

(4)

Subsection (6) of section 198 exempts from the application of tree preservation orders the cutting down, uprooting, topping or lopping of trees which are dying, dead or have become dangerous, or the undertaking of those acts in compliance with obligations imposed by or under an Act of Parliament or so far as may be necessary for the prevention or abatement of a nuisance. Subsection (7) of that section makes section 198 subject to section 39(2) of the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63) (saving for effect of section 2(4) of the Opencast Coal Act 1958 on land affected by a tree preservation order despite its repeal) and section 15 of the Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10) (licences under that Act to fell trees comprised in a tree preservation order).

(5)

See section 263 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

(6)

S.I. 1995/418.

(7)

1991 c. 59, see section 72.

(11)

Section 79 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), section 18 and Schedule 7, paragraph 19.