Tree survey report: Bs5837 Planning Requirement
The Bs5837 Planning Requirement carries 7 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 5 to 28 day, read 24 October 2026.
4 of the 14 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
By rule
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruleminimum period to object to a tree preservation order | 28day | 28 to 28day | 1 |
| rulesite-notice publicity period | 21day | 21 to 21day | 1 |
| ruleperiod to decide a consent application | 8week | 8 to 8week | 1 |
| rulesection 211 notice period in a conservation area | 6week | 6 to 6week | 1 |
| ruleminimum period after service of a notice (TCPA 1990) | 28day | 28 to 28day | 1 |
| ruleearliest time in a damage notice (TCPA 1990) | 22day | 22 to 22day | 1 |
| ruleearliest time specified in an action notice | 15day | 15 to 15day | 1 |
| rulelongest statutory determination period | 16week | 16 to 16week | 1 |
| ruletime limit to appeal a refusal | 28day | 28 to 28day | 1 |
| ruleperiod to confirm a tree preservation order after it is made | 6month | 6 to 6month | 1 |
| ruledefault duration of a TPO consent | 2year | 2 to 2year | 1 |
| rulewindow to carry out notified conservation-area work after the notice | 2year | 2 to 2year | 1 |
| rulenotice before work on a dead tree in a conservation area | 5day | 5 to 5day | 1 |
| rulemaximum magistrates' court fine for a section 210(2) offence | 20,000GBP | 20,000 to 20,000GBP | 1 |
| rulemaximum fine for a section 210(4) offence (level 4) | 2,500GBP | 2,500 to 2,500GBP | 1 |
| ruletime limit to prosecute a section 210(4) offence once evidence is known | 6month | 6 to 6month | 1 |
| rulelongstop for prosecuting a section 210(4) offence | 3year | 3 to 3year | 1 |
| rulefine for obstructing an officer's right of entry (level 3) | 1,000GBP | 1,000 to 1,000GBP | 1 |
| ruleperiod to serve a tree replacement notice | 4year | 4 to 4year | 1 |
| rulefine for obstructing tree replacement enforcement (level 3) | 1,000GBP | 1,000 to 1,000GBP | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
The sentence each figure was read from (20)
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
Section 210(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 provides that anyone found guilty of these offences is liable, if convicted in the magistrates’ court, to a fine of up to £20,000.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
Anyone found guilty in the magistrates’ court of an offence under section 210(4) is liable to a fine of up to Level 4 (currently £2,500).
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
Anyone who wilfully obstructs an authority officer exercising these rights of entry is guilty of an offence and liable, if convicted in the Magistrates’ Court, to a Level 3 fine (currently up to £1,000).
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
They are liable, if convicted in the Magistrates’ Court, to a Level 3 fine (currently up to £1,000).
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
specify a date (at least 28 days after the date of the notice) by which any objection or representation must be received by the authority.
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Part VIII (trees), read 2026-09-12:
That period shall not be less than 28 days after the service of the notice.
- MHCLG - Tree Preservation Orders: A Guide to the Law and Good Practice, read 2026-10-24:
The appeal must be made in writing within 28 days of receiving the LPA's decision,
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Part VIII (trees), read 2026-09-12:
A time specified under subsection (11)(b) may not be earlier than the end of 22 days beginning with the date of the notice.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
It must publicise such an application by displaying a notice on or near the site for at least 21 days.
- GOV.UK - Making an application (validation requirements), read 2026-09-12:
Depending on the type of application, this would be 8, 13 or 16 weeks after the day the application is received, or an extended period agreed in writing between the applicant and local planning authority.
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Part VIII (trees), read 2026-09-12:
A time specified under subsection (2) or (3) may not be earlier than the end of 15 days beginning the date of service or fixing of the notice.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
If the local authority has not decided an application for consent within 8 weeks from the day it is received, then the applicant may appeal on grounds of non-determination.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
These provisions require people to notify the local planning authority, using a ‘section 211 notice’, 6 weeks before carrying out certain work on such trees, unless an exception applies.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
Is there a time limit for confirming Orders? Authorities can only confirm an Order within a 6 month period beginning with the date on which the Order was made.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
Are there time limits for bringing a prosecution? Section 210(4A) and (4B) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 set out that, in respect of offences under section 210(4) of the Act, authorities may bring an action within 6 months beginning with the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify the proceedings came to the prosecutor’s knowledge.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
Unless there is an immediate risk of serious harm, anyone proposing to carry out work on a tree in a conservation area on the grounds that it is dead must give the authority 5 days notice before carrying out the proposed work.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
The local planning authority can only serve a tree replacement notice within 4 years from the date of the landowner’s failure to replant as soon as he or she reasonably could (see section 207(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990).
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
However, proceedings cannot commence more than 3 years after the date the offence was committed.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
By default, consent is valid for 2 years beginning with the date of its grant.
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas, read 2026-10-12:
decide not to make an Order and allow the 6-week notice period to end, after which the proposed work may be done within 2 years of the date of the notice.
Read in full, publishes no figure
10 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- GOV.UK - Before submitting an application, read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Trees and woodland guidance for local authorities, read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012, regulation 13, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, section 198 (power to make tree preservation orders), read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, section 211 (trees in conservation areas), read 2026-10-24: every candidate on the page was refused
- GOV.UK - National Planning Policy Framework, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Planning Portal - trees (common projects), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BSI Knowledge - BS 5837:2012 Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction. Recommendations, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BSI landing page - BS 5837:2012, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
4 of the 14 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 44 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per rule with its source and date: what the Town and Country Planning Act and the 2012 tree regulations protect, what the planning practice guidance says an authority may require, what BS 5837:2012 names as the deliverables, and - the part nobody publishes - which of those each local planning authority's own validation local list actually demands, walked authority by authority.
That coverage map is what turns 'a tree survey costs £349' into 'a £349 survey will or will not validate in your borough'.
44 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (15)
- GOV.UK planning practice guidance - Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Making an application (validation requirements)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Before submitting an application(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Trees and woodland guidance for local authorities(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012, regulation 13(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, section 198 (power to make tree preservation orders)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, section 211 (trees in conservation areas)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Part VIII (trees)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - National Planning Policy Framework(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Planning Portal - trees (common projects)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BSI Knowledge - BS 5837:2012 Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction. Recommendations(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BSI landing page - BS 5837:2012(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- MHCLG - Tree Preservation Orders: A Guide to the Law and Good Practice(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Peak District National Park Authority - Tree Survey and Arboricultural Implications (validation note)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Bs5837 Planning Requirement carries 7 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 5 to 28 day, read 24 October 2026.
4 of the 14 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule minimum period to object to a tree preservation order: median 28 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule site-notice publicity period: median 21 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule period to decide a consent application: median 8 week across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule section 211 notice period in a conservation area: median 6 week across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule minimum period after service of a notice (TCPA 1990): median 28 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule earliest time in a damage notice (TCPA 1990): median 22 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule earliest time specified in an action notice: median 15 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule longest statutory determination period: median 16 week across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule time limit to appeal a refusal: median 28 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule period to confirm a tree preservation order after it is made: median 6 month across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule default duration of a TPO consent: median 2 year across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule window to carry out notified conservation-area work after the notice: median 2 year across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule notice before work on a dead tree in a conservation area: median 5 day across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule maximum magistrates' court fine for a section 210(2) offence: median 20,000 GBP across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule maximum fine for a section 210(4) offence (level 4): median 2,500 GBP across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule time limit to prosecute a section 210(4) offence once evidence is known: median 6 month across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule longstop for prosecuting a section 210(4) offence: median 3 year across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule fine for obstructing an officer's right of entry (level 3): median 1,000 GBP across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule period to serve a tree replacement notice: median 4 year across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
Bs5837 Planning Requirement, rule fine for obstructing tree replacement enforcement (level 3): median 1,000 GBP across 1 source, read 24 October 2026.
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