Belfast Council is to look at ways of transforming the Tree Protection Order system, with a view to demanding legislation change from Stormont.
Read more:Belfast council to look at spending £56,000 on Irish street signs for whole of Gaeltacht Quarter The council decision this week to look at transforming TPOs originates from a motion forwarded by Green Councillor Áine Groogan.
Green Party Councillor Áine Groogan said the council should look at “flipping the system on its head". She told the chamber: “We could move to a system that embeds the rights of nature in our policies and our practices, that trees are afforded the protection under law that they deserve, by reversing the system so the automatic assumption is trees are not cut down unless approval is given otherwise.
She said: “TPOs are far too limited for what we need. They require someone to actively intervene to ensure a tree is protected, and I use that term loosely. An action that is usually only sought out by the public when they are already at risk and often when it is too late.
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