Tree Conservation and Tree Preservation Orders

• Tree Conservation and Tree Preservation Orders
• Carrying out works to trees
• Tree disease
• Tree identification

View our registers:

• Tree Preservation Order Registers

Open data:

• Open data for Tree Preservation Orders in Adur and Worthing

See also:

• Trees in Adur and Worthing
• Memorial trees
• Vegetation problem reporting - in parks and on the highway

You may also be interested in:

• Adur Conservation and Heritage
• Worthing Conservation and Heritage

Tree Conservation and Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs)

Any enquiries concerning trees that are in conservation areas or have a preservation order on them should be directed to:

• Planning (Development Management)

We offer a pre application advice service. For information about this service, and the fees involved, see:

• Pre-application advice

If your property is not within a conservation area and is not subject to any TPOs it is unlikely you will need permission to do any works to the tree and the council could not offer any further advice in this regard. You will need to seek your own independent advice.

See also:

• High hedges - making a complaint

The GOV.UK website also contains a wealth of information and advice on trees, tree preservation orders (TPOs) and hedges - and also includes legal advice and what you can and can't do with trees and hedges:

• Tree management and preservation - on the GOV.UK website

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Carrying out works to trees

If you need to carry out works to trees you may need to fill out the tree works application form.

It is easiest to do this online:

• Submit a tree works application online - on the Planning Portal website

Or you can download a paper form:

• Download a tree works application paper form - on the Planning Portal website

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Tree disease

Trees can be subject to disease, the links below may be of use in identifying them.

If you need to carry out works to a diseased tree you will need to contact:

• Planning (Development Management)

If you need to carry out works to a diseased tree see carrying out works to trees (above).

Ash Dieback:

• How are we tackling ash dieback in Adur and Worthing?
• Ash Dieback - on the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) website
• Ash Dieback - on the Tree Council website
• Ash Dieback - on the Forestry Commission website

Dutch Elm Disease:

• Dutch Elm Disease - on the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) website

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Tree identification

You can use the following links to help you identify trees:

• Tree identification - on the Woodland Trust website
• Tree identification - on the Woodlands website
• Tree identification - on the Natural History Museum website

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Open data for Tree Preservation Orders in Adur and Worthing

You may use and re-use the information featured on this web service (below) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the:

• Open Government Licence v3.0 - on the National Archive website

When you use information under the Open Government Licence, you should include the following attribution:

Open data for tree preservation orders in the Adur District Council/Worthing Borough Council area (the date of publication), licensed under the Open Government Licence.

You can find the information here:

Adur:

• Adur - Tree Preservation Orders
• Adur - Tree Preservation Orders - Zones/Woodlands/Groups
• Adur - Tree Preservation Orders - Trees

Worthing:

• Worthing - Tree Preservation Orders
• Worthing - Tree Preservation Orders - Zones/Woodlands/Groups
• Worthing - Tree Preservation Orders - Trees

See also:

• Tree Preservation Order Register

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