Examples of List of Protected Trees in a sentence
Article 117 gives certain persons the right to appeal to the Commission against the inclusion of a building or place on the List of Sites of Special Interest or the inclusion of a tree on the List of Protected Trees.
In April 2019 the Minister for the Environment, in response to a written question (WQ.194/2019) from the Connétable of St. Helier noted both this and the fact that the Planning Law instead requires important “amenity trees” to be added to the List of Protected Trees, accessible on the Government of Jersey website.
Article 58 of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 requires the Minister for the Environment to maintain a List of Protected Trees.
All SSC that are listed by TOPs, the Provincial Conservation Ordinance or the List of Protected Trees require permits if they are cut, destroyed or damaged in any way.
A permit from DEDEAT is required for the removal or destruction of species protected by the PNCO 1.2.2. 1976 List of Protected Trees (Government Gazette No. 9542 Schedule A) in the 1998 National Forest Act (NFA):No person may cut, disturb, damage or destroy any protected tree or possess, collect, remove, transport, export, purchase, sell, donate or in any other manner acquire or dispose of any protected tree or any forest product derived from a protected tree, unless a permit has been acquired.
The List of Protected Trees that is currently available on the government website has 66 records and does not act as a single source of truth to determine whether any tree in Jersey has protected status.
It must be acknowledged that the List of Protected Trees is not a comprehensive list.
NFA List of Protected Trees (Government Notice 908 of 2014) list all trees protected and will require a permit application to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).