Tree Preservation Orders - Scotland

Whilst TPOs are a legal requirement they may not always be digitised accurately. Users of this data should not assume this data is totally accurate and should consult the specific local authority for more detail before making any decisions

A TPO is made by the Local Authority, under Section 160 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, and within the procedures set out in the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2010. They are made to protect individual trees, groups of trees or woodlands which have particular amenity value, make a significant contribution to the landscape or townscape or because there may be a potential threat to the trees. Deciding which trees qualify to become protected the local authority must ensure that the trees contribute to the amenity and attractiveness of an area and be under threat in some way. Either individual specimens or groups can be protected in a single Order. More information and guidance on Tree Preservation orders and Trees in conservation can be found in Planning Circular 1/2011. Which provides an overview of the TPO procedures, explaining how the requirements from the Act and Regulations fit together.

Some local authorities capture polygons of tree preservation areas. Others will identify actual trees as point TPOs. Several LAs capture both. We have initially created two separate layers - point and polygon, to represent TPOs. This may show duplication where a point falls within a polygon. We may adapt this rationale and methodology in due course as we know that there is a discrepancy with Registers of Scotland's TPO data.

 
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. Tree Preservation Orders - Scotland. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/830f9a83-ae6b-4260-a82a-24c4851f7119

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Alternate title
tpo
Date ( Revision )
2020-02-18
Identifier
www.spatialhub.scot / sh_tpo

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Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Land use
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover , Protected sites , Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Limitations on public access
Use limitation
Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the OSMA (One Scotland Mapping Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Planning cadastre
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Reference system identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
Reference system identifier
EPSG / ETRS89 (EPSG:4258) / 7.9
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.9
Distribution format
  • OGC:WMC (1.3.0 )

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http://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/  
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dataset Dataset
Statement

This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub.

The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data:

- Polygons are not dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority.

- The minimum polygon area allows in the data is 1 square metres

- Checks for invalid geometry types

- The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees

- Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data

- Duplicate key names for polygons are not removed

- Polygons with no key names are not removed

- Checks for basic geometry and self-intersection

All corrections and issues are captured and communicated via Quality Assurance report maps. Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.

Metadata

File identifier
830f9a83-ae6b-4260-a82a-24c4851f7119   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-02-21
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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