Tree Preservation in Quarry
From:
Stephanie Jenkins
Date:
Mar 15 14:53 UTC
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Do you know whether the tree in question had a TPO (tree preservation
order) or whether the area falls within the Quarry Conservation Area?
If the answer to either of these question is Yes, then I understand
that permission should have been granted before the tree was chopped
down (unless it was a fruit tree).
You can see a list of trees that were recently felled or pruned with
permission if you do as follows:
(1) Go to the City Council planning website:
http://uniformpublicaccess.oxford.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/tdc_home.aspx
(2) Choose the "Application Search" sidelink (the second one down)
(3) On the page that comes up, under "Application details" you have
the option of choosing either "Works to a tree with a TPO" or "Works
to trees in a Conservation Area". Then select "Quarry & Risinghurst
Ward" in the ward box.
(4) Because planning record searches can only shows a hundred
results, and work has been done to far more trees than that in your
ward, you need to narrow down your search, and you can do this by
entering some dates in the "Date Application Received" boxes, e.g.
"From 01/01/2007 to 15/03/2008". That particular search brings up 22
trees in the Quarry Conservation area, and four trees with TPOs in the
Quarry & Risinghurst ward, all of which have had surgery or been
felled in the last year or so.