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Planning Tree Survey Areas London to Birmingham

Planning tree survey areas are grouped here for Greater London, the South East, South West, Home Counties, East Anglia and the southern Midlands. Each page identifies the council context and links into the full BS5837 planning service sequence. The planning tree survey areas are designed to make the correct local route easier to find.

Find your planning area

Planning tree survey areas grouped by region.

Use these planning tree survey areas to find the relevant council context. If a National Park or other special planning authority is shown on your live application, use that authority's wording. These planning tree survey areas are a regional starting point, not a substitute for the actual application record. You can also check the current Local Planning Authority on the Planning Portal ↗.

How to use the coverage hub

Planning tree survey areas: find the right council page.

Use the planning tree survey areas to move from the regional index to the relevant authority context before commissioning work.

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Start with location

The planning tree survey areas are organised so you can move from region to the relevant council context quickly.

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Check the authority

Use the planning tree survey areas alongside the authority shown on the live application or validation request.

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Send the wording

Across the planning tree survey areas, the exact council wording is more useful than guessing which report name applies.

04

Match the stage

For projects spanning several planning tree survey areas, keep survey, AIA, AMS and TPP stages aligned with the current design.

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Use the service links

The planning tree survey areas connect directly to the dedicated BS5837 service pages for the next technical stage.

06

Allow for special LPAs

Where a National Park or other special authority overlaps the planning tree survey areas, follow the authority on the live application.

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Keep council context

Each of the planning tree survey areas keeps the council and regional context visible without pretending every application needs the same documents.

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Use this as the starting point

The planning tree survey areas are a practical route into the correct local page, not a substitute for current planning correspondence.

Greater London33 authority areas
Surrey11 authority areas
Kent13 authority areas
Sussex13 authority areas
Hampshire & Isle of Wight14 authority areas
Berkshire6 authority areas
Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes2 authority areas
Oxfordshire5 authority areas
Essex14 authority areas
Hertfordshire10 authority areas
Bedfordshire3 authority areas
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough6 authority areas
Suffolk5 authority areas
Gloucestershire7 authority areas
Bristol, Bath & Somerset4 authority areas
Wiltshire2 authority areas
Dorset2 authority areas
Devon10 authority areas
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly2 authority areas
West Midlands7 authority areas
Warwickshire5 authority areas
Worcestershire6 authority areas
Herefordshire1 authority areas
Northamptonshire2 authority areas
Not sure which authority applies?

Planning tree survey areas can be checked from the postcode.

Send the site postcode and council wording. These planning tree survey areas help identify the regional route, and we can confirm the survey/report route from the information you already have.