The Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2010

Procedure and representations

4.—(1) A planning authority must, as soon as practicable after making a tree preservation order—

(a) make a copy of the tree preservation order available for public inspection at a place or places convenient to the locality in which the trees, groups of trees, or woodlands are situated;

(b) give notice of the making of the tree preservation order in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the trees, groups of trees, or woodlands are situated including a statement containing the following information—

(i) the grounds for making the tree preservation order;

(ii) where and at what times a copy of the tree preservation order may be inspected;

(iii) how representations with respect to the tree preservation order may be made to the planning authority; and

(iv) the date by which any representation must be made to the planning authority (being a date not earlier than 28 days after the date on which the notice is given);

(c) send a copy of the tree preservation order to The Forestry Commissioners(1); and

(d) give notice to all interested persons containing the information specified in paragraphs (b)(i), (iii) and (iv) together with a copy of the tree preservation order.

(2) A copy of the tree preservation order must be made available for inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours, at the offices of the planning authority by whom the tree preservation order was made.

(1)

The Forestry Commissioners are continued by and operating under the Forestry Act 1967 (c.10).