danielohondo
2021-01-27 11:03:27
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Which specific trees in your city are protected and require replacement planting, you can usually find out directly from the responsible authority or also local nurseries (they often do the replacement plantings and know it from practice). In Munich, for example, this was the Lower Environmental Protection Authority for us, which has a very extensive set of rules. In practice, we then had to have a tree inventory plan made by an expert (arranged for us by the architect), who recorded all the trees and determined their species and size. In Munich, only certain trees are protected and require replacement plantings (in principle, everything that is traditional and older tree species, fruit trees and lilac bushes but not, for example). How many depends on which caseworker approves the building application and the tree inventory plan :) Our planner initially recorded 5 replacement plantings, but since that was clearly too much for us, he tried with one replacement tree and it was approved (after all, it all costs money and we want to decide ourselves what we plant). So if you know someone who knows a lot about trees and can take another look at the property quietly, you can fairly easily estimate how many of them are protected and require replacement planting. But if there is no 100-year-old and meter-high old oak on your property, which you surely would not be allowed to fell, I would not let the trees stop you. Replacement plantings can cause annoying additional costs, but compared to all other costs and the scarcity of land, they are a joke.
The list of protected trees is in the tree protection statute. However, it is not clear to me whether the property is included or not. House gardens are excluded in the statute.