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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. In 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.
Default
Identification info
- Alternative title
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tpo
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2025-04-29
- Identifier
- www.spatialhub.scot / sh_tpo
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Land use
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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Land cover
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Protected sites
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version OGC:WMC
1.3.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/tree_preservation_orders-is Tree Preservation Orders - Scotland
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/830f9a83-ae6b-4260-a82a-24c4851f7119/formatters/xml EDINA Digimap Service
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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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. spatialhub@improvementservice.org 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
- English
- Parent identifier
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Tree Preservation Orders - Scotland
830f9a83-ae6b-4260-a82a-24c4851f7119
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-04-29T11:12:35.489Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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The Improvement Service
- Position name
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Spatial Hub Custodian
- Voice
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01506 282012
- City
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Livingston
- Administrative area
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West Lothian
- Postal code
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EH54 6AX
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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spatialhub@improvementservice.org spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
- Role
- Point of contact