Trees and Landscape Features in Extensions

Where important trees and landscape features exist within a site, care should be taken that extensions are not sited too close to them. Best practice in relation to this matter can be found in the publication 'Trees and Development' co-sponsored by the Department, the Forest of Belfast and the Construction Employers' Federation. To ensure that full account is taken of existing trees and landscape features within the residential curtilage, such features should, as part of a planning application, be accurately detailed on a site survey map in accordance with British Standards BS 5837 (2005) 'Trees in Relation to Construction'. Where it is proposed that existing trees or significant landscape features are to be removed, the layout plan should indicate proposals for compensatory planting.