Prior to consideration of this item, the Chairman took the opportunity to introduce Ms Anna Stevens, the recently appointed Team Leader for Heritage, Landscape and Trees, to the Committee.

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Development Management concerning provisional Tree Preservation Order No. 5005/2023/TPO which had been made to protect fifteen individual trees, two groups of trees and two areas of woodland growing on land at Otham Glebe, Church Road, Otham.  It was noted that the objections raised to this TPO were not considered to be sufficiently robust to question its validity and the exclusion of an incorrectly plotted area of garden as woodland within the area identified as Woodland W1 was considered appropriate in terms of following current government guidance when making and confirming Tree Preservation Orders.

RESOLVED:  That Tree Preservation Order No. 5005/2023/TPO be confirmed with modification to exclude the area hatched red within Woodland W1 on the map.

Voting:  13 – For  0 – Against  0 – Abstentions