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The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) proposes to retain the exception for dead trees and introduce a new exception for the removal of dead branches on living trees, in new regulations proposed for Tree Preservation orders. This means that dead trees and dead branches could therefore be removed without the approval of the Local Authority.

Please support our call to remove these exceptions from the forthcoming regulations. You can use our form to add your own views, too.

 Deadline for submissions- 20th December 2010

Two magnificent ancient trees: the one in the foreground could be protected because it is just alive, the one in the background is dead and a TPO could not protect it.

 

A historic ancient oak loses its protection when the last twig dies

 
“It is said that there is more life in a dead tree than a living one”

Trees for Life

 

“...dying and dead wood provides one of the two or three greatest resources for animal species in a natural forest... if fallen timber and slightly decayed trees are removed the whole system is gravely impoverished of perhaps more than a fifth of its fauna."

(Elton 1966, p279)

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