Check Tree Preservation Orders in Nottinghamshire

In Nottinghamshire, Tree Preservation Orders are handled by the local councils rather than a single county body. Nottingham City Council covers the city as a unitary authority, while the surrounding boroughs and districts each hold their own records for their areas.

Start with a postcode search above for an indication from available public data, then confirm with the council that covers the property.

Depending on the address, the relevant authority could be:

• Nottingham City Council for the city.
• Broxtowe, Rushcliffe or Gedling in the south and around the city.
• Mansfield and Ashfield to the north-west.
• Newark and Sherwood, and Bassetlaw, to the north and east.

Each maintains its own TPO records, so what is published — and how — differs from one to the next.

As of July 2026: none. We checked the national planning.data.gov.uk dataset for every Nottinghamshire planning authority — Nottingham City, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe, Gedling, Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Bassetlaw — and not one had published its Tree Preservation Order records to it. An empty checker map anywhere in the county is therefore the norm, and it tells you nothing about whether a particular tree is protected.

What the county's councils have published nationally is conservation areas — from 5 in Ashfield to 47 in Newark and Sherwood — and inside those, most tree work needs written notice to the council even without a TPO. For the TPOs themselves, each council's own register is the place to ask, and every district page here explains how.

With no Nottinghamshire TPO records in the national data, a search cannot settle the question on its own — the county's registers sit with the individual councils.

The report states that position in writing for a specific address, and checks what is published against it: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and listed buildings. It also names the authority that actually covers the property, which matters where a boundary leaves even that unclear. Worth having where the work or the transaction carries real cost.