Deputy Neil Inder, President of the DPA, said they had to protect Guernsey’s trees, green spaces and biodiversity.
“As part of the Focussed Review of the Island Development Plan, the developer of the site was made aware around eight weeks ago that the stand of poplars was likely to be subject to a Protection Order when the policy letter came to the States in the autumn,” he said.
Inder said photos of the damage were sent to him at 20:00 BST on Monday and the order was put in place less then 24 hours later.
He added: “The damage to the root base of the identified stand was significant, a track machine had scraped the base of some of the trees exposing the roots and destroying others.
“Damaged in spring, as the trees were coming into leaf would have a detrimental effect on this stand of poplar.”
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