Agenda item

6.1

Sam Thorn (Planning Officer, Landscape) attended the meeting and presented the report.

6.2

A supplementary document containing the Order to be confirmed, dated 2021, which had been made as the previous Order dated 2020, had lapsed before it could be confirmed, had been previously circulated and made available to the public.

6.3

The Officer informed Committee that the original Order had been served in response to a request from local residents and a local Councillor, as there was a perceived threat to the trees being removed by the land-owner. In order to prevent the removal of the trees, a Tree Preservation Order was therefore served.

6.4

Chloe Cheeseman and Councillor Ian Auckland attended the meeting and spoke in support of the Tree Preservation Order.

6.5

A discussion took place regarding the original planning application and the removal of trees.  The Legal Officer undertook to raise the issue with the Enforcement Team to see if a breach of the permission had taken place and to report the matter back to the co-chairs of the Committee.

6.6

No objections to the Order had been received from the public within the consultation period.

6.7

RESOLVED: That Tree Preservation Order No. 438 be confirmed unmodified.