Other changes relating to enforcement
Article 16 ‑ Replacement of trees
This Article replaces Article 82 of the 1991 Order and provides for revised enforcement measures in respect of the protection of trees that are subject to a Tree Preservation Orders (TPO) as follows:
a new power for the Department to enforce the duty to replace trees subject to a TPO;
sets out specific grounds of appeal against enforcement notices in relation to trees;
a power for the Department to enter onto land to replant trees subject to a TPO, and to recover any costs incurred as a civil debt;
a new duty on an owner to replace trees that are removed in a Conservation Area.
