Question follow-through · 26969
Permitted Development Rights: Trees
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, what steps she is taking to help ensure that trees are not damaged during pe
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, what steps she is taking to help ensure that trees are not damaged during pe
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
Where development may impact a tree, owners are required to check if the tree is in a conservation area or subject to a Tree Preservation Order. If a tree is subject to either of these, owners are required to obtain the necessary permission to carry out a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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