A legal obligation laid on an owner to preserve a building of historic interest, or to conserve trees and natural habitat regarded as contributing amenity value to the environment.
〈主英〉保护令（要求物主保存历史建筑或树木及自然栖息地以利环境的法定义务）
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The trees had not been protected by a preservation order.
One protester, Clare Collins, 29, said the development would mean the loss of trees, which she claimed had been made subject of a preservation order.
In this case the defence that the tree was dying or dead and therefore not subject to a preservation order was for the defendant to prove.
And we need the immediate placement of a local preservation order on the Odeon building, as proposed by Councillor Andy Mudd way back in February this year.
A preservation order was eventually served on nine trees on May 16th, but there were also complaints to the council over bonfires.
My beloved old grammar school, Queen Anne's, was saved as a building when a preservation order was slapped on it, thus depriving York's city council and greedy property developers from making a fortune.
It's the architecture (not just Georgian, but medieval and 17th century, too) that draws so many people here, thanks in part to a preservation order placed during the 1960s.
We wanted to have the sycamore trees felled a while ago but somebody complained and the council put a preservation order on them.
Phyllis Page, who has lived at The Glade for 35 years, will learn next week if councillors will overturn officer recommendations and approve her application to overturn a tree preservation order.
On September 21, he served a tree preservation order on Tunney.
Before starting any cutting you should check with the local authority to see if the tree has a preservation order on it.
The trees there are not covered by a preservation order and as the land is privately owned by Tarmac Limited, the Council cannot prevent them from being removed.
At a recent planning meeting it had been decided that the four poplars could be cut down, but that the rest of the trees would remain subject to the preservation order.
When it was discovered that the trees were subject to a preservation order, work stopped immediately.
Under the terms of a tree preservation order served last September, Tunney was permitted to fell 54 trees.
There is a tree preservation order on the yew that has stood guard over the neighbouring churchyard for more than a century.
Last night councillors backed calls for the building to be listed and asked for a preservation order to be put on it.
The Grange is surrounded by 150 trees - including walnut, lime, English oak, beech, hazel, and conifers - which would be safeguarded by a collective preservation order.
Although the tree did not have a preservation order on it, it was in the village conservation area and legally Kennet District Council can insist it is replaced.
We found out afterwards that we could have tried to get a preservation order on those trees but at the time we didn't realise.