Doing work to your trees
Urban trees:
- capture carbon
- clean the air
- reduce flooding
- improve human health and wellbeing
- improve the local economy
- support biodiversity
They also make our towns more beautiful and enjoyable. A healthy, thriving, urban forest is crucial for the current and future liveability of our city. Before removing trees, please consider other management options that might allow them to be retained – every tree counts.
It is an offence to carry out work to a protected tree without permission.
If you would like to do works to a tree, first check if the tree is protected by a tree preservation order or is in a conservation area.
Our interactive map shows details of tree preservation orders and conservation areas. Within those areas, permission from the Council is usually required for any tree work.
The green areas indicate a conservation area and the purple areas indicate a tree preservation order (TPO). The purple areas are indicative only. For full details of a TPO, click the purple area and follow the popup link to access the TPO document.