A collection of trees placed under a temporary protection order were described as ‘rather scruffy’ by a local councillor as officers asked for the order to be made permanent.
Eight individual trees and two groups of them were placed under the Tree Protection Order (TPO) in December after the landowner approached Midlothian Council for talks about redeveloping the land.
At a meeting of the council’s planning committee this week councillors were asked to approve making the TPO for the trees at Pentland Lea and The Firs, on Seafield Road, Bilston, permanent after officers argued that they provided valued amenity to the area.
