I’ve discovered Birmingham has more trees than any other UK city. It even outnumbers most European cities. Birmingham expanded over the once northern reach of the ancient Forest of Arden during the industrial revolution when the population boomed. Even today there’s dense tree cover (including many descendants...
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has chosen the first 20 areas that will benefit from his election pledge to fund 10,000 new street trees. Read the whole article .
A laudable idea and good for Green Infrastructure.Bring on the trees.
But ,an onorous application form if you are encouraging a community group or as is often the case an enthusiastic individual in a street,and very short notice.Unless this isn't the form for the street trees?
Trees For Cities and...
Getting to the ‘Real’ root of the problem I can only assume, and hope, that some of the comments made by James Urban in his 'Interview’ were out of context or a miss-quote. I have just read his article having returned on Monday from a 3 ? week holiday in the States. I also lived as a professional...
