ISBN13: 9780414103009
Previous Edition ISBN: 9781847039149
To be Published: December 2022
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £195.00
Also available as
£175.50
£215.50
The Law of Trees, Forests and Hedges is the only comprehensive work on this complex area of law – an uncoordinated mix of private and public law, common law and statute – as it applies throughout the United Kingdom. It explains the general law on trees, outlines the law relating to commercial forestry, and discusses the protections for important trees and hedgerows, ancient woodlands and historic landscapes.
- Written in a clear style, accessible both to lawyers and non-lawyers
- Provides sample conditions for use with planning permissions and tree preservation orders respectively
- Contains a table of penalties for criminal offences
- This new edition is fully updated to deal with all relevant developments in legislation, case law and policy
- There have been over 75 relevant new court cases, including decisions on encroaching tree roots, responsibility for the safety of trees, and the controversial programme of felling street trees in Sheffield
- The law on the protection of trees in England has been greatly simplified by the 2012 Regulations, and new online guidance; and there have been judicial decisions involving unauthorised works to protected trees, and as to the meaning of “tree”
- The legislation on trees in churchyards has evolved
- The administration of forestry has changed significantly, with the setting up of the Natural Resources Body for Wales (NRW) and Scottish Forestry
- Subjects:
- Property Law, Environmental Law, Planning Law
- Contents:
- PART 1. INTRODUCTION
- 1. Introduction
- PART 2. TREES AND HEDGES: THE GENERAL LAW
- 2. Ownership of trees: general principles
- 3. Ownership of boundary trees and hedges
- 4. Boundary trees: liability
- 5. Problems with boundary trees: remedies
- 6. Boundary hedges
- 7. Liability for trees: legal principles
- 8. Hazardous trees: the duty of care in practice
- 9. Dangerous trees: the consequences
- 10. Trees and highways
- 11. Trees and statutory undertakers
- 12. Other forms of liability for trees
- 13. Carrying out works to trees and hedges
- 14. Planting trees and hedges
- PART 3. COMMERCIAL FORESTRY
- 15. Forestry
- 16. Financial considerations
- 17. Felling licences
- 18. Felling directions
- 19. Environmental impact of forestry
- PART 4. PROTECTION FOR TREES AND WOODLANDS OF SPECIAL VALUE
- 20. Trees and woodlands of special value
- 21. Making a tree preservation order
- 22. Works to protected trees: the need for consent
- 23. Tree consent: applications and appeals
- 24. Compensation for adverse decisions
- 25. Requirement to plant replacement trees
- 26. Unauthorised works to protected trees
- 27. Trees in conservation areas
- 28. Trees in churchyards
- PART 5. HEDGEROWS
- 29. Inclosure Act hedgerows
- 30. Protection of important hedgerows
- PART 6. TREES AND WOODLANDS BEYOND ENGLAND AND WALES
- 31. Trees and the law in Scotland
- 32. Trees and the law elsewhere in the British Isles
- APPENDICES
- A. Sample conditions for use with planning permissions
- B. Sample conditions for use with consents under tree preservation orders
- C. Penalties for criminal offences