PART 9PRESERVATION OF TREES AND WOODLANDS

CHAPTER 1TREE PRESERVATION ORDERS AND WOODLAND PRESERVATION ORDERS ETC.

General duty of planning authorities

233Planning permission to include provision for preservation and planting of trees

Where a planning authority grants planning permission for any development—

(a)

it must, where appropriate, grant the permission subject to conditions that make adequate provision for the preservation or planting of trees, and

(b)

it must make the tree preservation orders and woodland preservation orders it considers necessary in connection with the grant of permission, whether or not for giving effect to conditions to which the permission is subject.