A legal title plan and description protecting trees from development, created under The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Regulations 2010. Government Digital Service data is maintained in ArcMap shapefiles with linked PDFs and updated regularly by planning technicians. The dataset is intended for public and stakeholder use to identify protected trees.
Use Cases
- Assessing planning applications based on the location of legally protected trees.
- Managing greenspace maintenance and natural asset retention based on TPO locations.
- Supporting Local Development Plan (LDP) and supplementary guidance creation based on protected tree data.
- Informing interested parties, such as property developers or residents, about tree preservation constraints.
Strengths
- Data is updated regularly once new TPO information is provided, registered, or removed.
- Includes spatial data in ArcMap shapefiles and extra attributes in a spreadsheet with links to official TPO PDFs.
- Creation and maintenance follow a defined legal and procedural framework involving planning technicians, conservation officers, and paralegals.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- Maintained in ArcMap shapefiles with extra attributes in a spreadsheet, updated by planning technicians following a formal registration and notification process.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Data is updated regularly, but the specific last update date is unknown.
- Geography
- Likely covers the area of PKC (Perth and Kinross Council) in Scotland.