Tree preservation polygons Edit

A TPO is made by the Local Authority, under Section 160 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, and within the procedures set out in the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2010. They are made to protect individual trees, groups of trees or woodlands which have particular amenity value, make a significant contribution to the landscape or townscape or because there may be a potential threat to the trees.

 In deciding which trees qualify to become protected the local authority must ensure that the trees contribute to the amenity and attractiveness of an area and be under threat in some way. Either individual specimens or groups can be protected in a single Order. 

More information and guidance on Tree Preservation orders and Trees in conservation can be found in Planning Circular 1/2011. Which provides an overview of the TPO procedures, explaining how the requirements from the Act and Regulations fit together.

This dataset was published September 2025 and contains an updated schema. Each dataset contains information regarding;

• Location and calculated postcode
• Order Reference and Order Number
• Issuing authority (given historic nature of the orders)
• Year and Month of creation
• Order type - individual, group, or woodland
• Tree identifiers were applicable (labels)
• Tree species information were available
• Status (which may include protection areas and trees flagged as removed)
• Conservation area
• Community Council, Ward, and Datazone details.
• Comments

Note: positional information may include some degree of inaccuracy, especially regarding boundaries and area coverage.

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