Issue - meetings

TPO

Meeting: 23/01/2024 - Cheadle Area Committee (Item 11)

11 Proposed Tree Preservation Order at 329-351 Wilmslow Road, Heald Green pdf icon PDF 6 MB

To consider a report of the Director of Development and Regeneration.

 

The report provides detail on the proposed Tree Preservation Order at 329-351 Wilmslow Road, Heald Green.

 

The Area Committee is recommended to confirm the Tree Preservation Order at 329-351 Wilmslow Road, Heald Green (as amended) (as shown at appendix 2).

 

Officer contact: Peter Pollard 0161 474 5637 | peter.pollard@stockport.gov.uk

Additional documents:

Minutes:

A representative of the Assistant Director for Legal & Democratic Governance submitted a report of the Director of Development and Regeneration (copies of which had been circulated) providing detail on the proposed Tree Preservation Order (TPO) at 329 - 351 Wilmslow Road, Heald Green.

 

The following comments were made/ issues raised:

 

·         It was felt that those trees categorised as ‘TPO defensible’ and ‘definitely merits TPO’ at Appendix 4 should be approved.

·         The Area Committee expressed concerns in relation to the difficulties experienced with the process for the determination of this Tree Preservation Order at the various Area Committee meetings and asked that a letter be drafted on behalf of the Chair of the Area Committee to the Directors of Development & Regeneration and Place Management seeking a review and clarification of the process for the determination of such orders in the future.

 

RESOLVED (6 for, 3 abstentions) – (1) That approval be given to the confirmation of the Tree Preservation Order at 329 - 351 Wilmslow Road, Heald Green, namely, those trees categorised as ‘TPO defensible’ and ‘definitely merits TPO’ at Appendix 4.

 

(2) That the representative of the Assistant Director for Legal & Democratic Governance draft a letter to the Directors of Development & Regeneration and Place Management on behalf of the Chair of the Area Committee expressing the difficulties experienced with the process for the determination of this Tree Preservation Order and seeking a review and clarification of the process for the determination of such orders.