Annex 3
Planning Environment and Lands Technical Circular No. 3/94 - Tree Preservation
Appendix B - Lands Administration Office Instruction Section D-12 Tree Preservation
A. General
B. Authority
C. Guidelines for giving approval to felling
D. Inclusion of tree clause for leased land
E. Applications to fell trees - procedure
F. Breach of tree felling clause
G. Building plan referral to/from B.C. III
G. Building Plan Referral to/from Building Committee III (B.C. III)
- Where there is a tree preservation clause in the lease and building plans are required to be submitted to B.C. III for consideration under the Design Disposition and Height (DD + H) or Design and Disposition (D + D) clause, the B.C. III submission should indicate whether approval in principle has been/will be granted to the proposed tree felling.
- Where there is no tree preservation clause in the lease reference to B.C. III may be made if necessary, to consider whether control can/should be exercised through the DD + H or D + D clause.
- In all cases submitted to B.C. III for a ruling on tree preservation the submission should contain:
(a) A Tree Survey Plan and Schedule
(b) Arch S D's comments
(c) Compensatory landscaping/replanting plan
(d) Photographs (where appropriate) - It is recognised that frequently a formal application to fell trees will not have been received at the time of submission to B.C. III, as felling may be months away. In such cases approval by B.C. III should be treated as approval in principle only to the tree felling, besed on Arch S D recommendations.
- The formal consent letter to fell" will not be issued until an application is received, whereupon the Estate Surveyor will check the application against the earlier B.C. III decision (if applicable) and, if in order, prepare a consent letter and undertaking to carry out compensatory landseaping/replanting for DLO's signature in accordance with part E above.
- Appeals will be referred to LAM.
