23 Power of local authorities to deal with dangerous trees
Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (1976 c 57) | Legislation

Dangerous trees and excavations

23  Power of local authorities to deal with dangerous trees

(1)     Where a district council, a London borough council or the Common Council[, or a county or county borough council in Wales]—

(a)     receives from a person appearing to the council to be an owner or occupier of any land in the area of the council on which a tree is situated a notice requesting the council to make the tree safe; and

(b)     considers that the tree is in such a condition that there is imminent danger of its causing damage to persons or property,

the council may take such steps on the land, whether by felling the tree or otherwise, as it thinks are appropriate for the purpose of making the tree safe and may recover the expenses reasonably incurred in doing so from the person who gave the notice.

(2)     Where such a council—

(a)     receives from a person appearing to the council to be an owner or occupier of land a notice requesting the council to make safe a tree on other land which is in its area and which appears to the council not to be owned or occupied by that

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