Service Description: Applications for work to protected trees, queries about protected trees, high hedges and tree preservation orders.
Also known as:- Dutch Elm Disease (Trees with Protection Orders), Forest Management, Protected Trees, Tree Conservation Areas, Tree Planting, Tree Protection, Woodland Management
Answer: Every landowner is responsible for their own trees. The only exception is if the tree is protected, and the tree owner has asked for permission from the Council to remove it, and the Council has refused. In some such cases it might be the Council who is liable.