Councillors have rejected a call for all of the council’s tree works to be put forward as planning applications. A motion was brought to Newark Town Council’s full council meeting on Wednesday, July 24, by Mathew Skinner, requesting the council “commit to never again utilising a piece of national legislation (Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Section 211)) which permits that a local authority can; remove, topping, lopping or uprooting of a tree by, or on behalf of a local authority in a conservation area without the submission of a planning application”. His motion suggested that for any fut…
