Help protect our woodlands

You can make a difference to woods and trees near you. Below are some useful resources from the Woodland Trust to help you campaign to defend the local woods and trees you love.

How to object to a planning application

If you are opposing a development threat to a wood or tree, you will need to make an objection in writing to the local planning authority.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-trees-and-woods/campaign-with-us/campaign-in-your-community/write-an-objection/

Tree Preservation Orders

A Tree Preservation Order, or TPO, is usually made by a local planning authority (often the local council) to protect a specific tree or woodland from deliberate damage and destruction. This could include felling, lopping, topping, uprooting or otherwise wilful damage.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-trees-and-woods/campaign-with-us/campaign-in-your-community/tree-preservation-orders/

Report a threat

Have you found a possible threat from development to an ancient wood or tree? Cases involving woods and trees under threat can change and evolve during the planning process for a variety of reasons. Where a development involving ancient woods or veteran trees no longer remains a threat due to changing circumstances surrounding said application and based upon professional judgement steered by our conservation research, the Woodland Trust withholds the right to withdraw or amend its objection and review its approach.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-trees-and-woods/campaign-with-us/campaign-in-your-community/tell-us-about-a-threat/