Issue - meetings

The Committee considered the report and the urgent update report of the Head of Planning and Development concerning Tree Preservation Order No. 5007/2014/MS which was made to protect a mature Sycamore tree growing in the southern corner of the owner’s garden adjacent to The Street, Detling.  It was noted that:

·  The Order had been made in response to conservation area notification 14/502209/TCA.  The notice proposed the removal of the tree.  The amenity evaluation assessment confirmed that the tree was of sufficient quality and amenity value to merit protection by a Tree Preservation Order.

·  An objection to the Order had been received from the tree owner on the grounds that the tree was a nuisance and a danger.  However, on balance, it was the Landscape Officer’s view that the grounds of objection were not sufficiently robust to suggest that it was inappropriate to make a Tree Preservation Order on the Sycamore tree or that the tree should not continue to be the subject of the Order.

RESOLVED:  That Tree Preservation Order No. 5007/2014/MS be confirmed without modification.

Voting:  13 – For  0 – Against  0 - Abstentions