{"id":52210,"date":"2024-05-07T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=52210"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:45:10","slug":"sheffield-council-pass-tpo-despite-clear-objections-from-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/sheffield-council-pass-tpo-despite-clear-objections-from-homeowners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Council pass TPO despite clear objections from homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sheffield Council has passed a tree protection order despite homeowners objections that the \u2018unexpected\u2019 recommendation would instead increase future risk against the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Planning and Highways Committee last Tuesday, Sheffield Council was in agreement to pass a tree protection order (TPO) on Moorbank Road, with the understanding that the home \u2018appeared unoccupied\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this was not the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Tree Officer Vanessa Lyons, said: \u201cThe council was acting in good faith with information made available to them at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trees as seen from the corner of Moorbank Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Objecting to the TPO, part-owners of the property disputed the home was in fact not undergoing a \u2018change of ownership\u2019, that they had not received notification of the TPO, and the order would add an \u2018onerous layer of administration\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The homeowners added that the trees on the property have always been \u2018maintained to a high standard\u2019 and they failed to see why the Council needed to \u2018safeguard\u2019 the trees against future risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The part-owners of the property said: \u201cMy sister and I currently care for our elderly mother who suffers from advanced dementia. As you can imagine, caring for her and maintaining the property is an onerous task.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any maintenance to protected trees must be granted consent by the Council for work where it is justified, with regard to its potential impact upon the \u2018health and amenity\u2019 of the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A TPO may prohibit \u2018the cutting, topping, lopping or uprooting\u2019 of protected trees and carries a fine of up to \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Lyons added: \u201cEach intervention unless it was covered by exemption, i.e. the tree was dead, dangerous, would require consent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, Ms Lyons stated that the process was not considered \u2018substantially onerous\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trees \u2018form a visually striking part of the street scene\u2019 and worries that the home was undergoing a change of ownership warranted a TPO recommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Lyons said: \u201cThere would be no form of protection as the house is not within a conservation area, meaning the trees could potentially be removed at some point and that would offer a significant loss of amenity to the area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A member of the public in favour of the TPO commented on the \u2018beauty\u2019 of the trees and importance of attracting \u2018a wide variety of biodiversity\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheffield Council has passed a tree protection order despite homeowners objections that the \u2018unexpected\u2019 recommendation would instead increase future risk against the trees. In a Planning and Highways Committee last Tuesday, Sheffield Council was in agreement to pass a tree protection order (TPO) on Moorbank Road, with the understanding that the home \u2018appeared unoccupied\u2019\u2019. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":52223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[116,394,12,55,569],"class_list":["post-52210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council","tag-council","tag-environmental","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52237,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52210\/revisions\/52237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}