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ResourcesNeil Stevens2021-11-16T12:24:14+00:00

Urban Forest Talk

This is a talk entitled Ilkley Trees – Our Urban Forest that  Sue Stevens gave to the Wharfedale Naturalists  in Autumn 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJU8L0XUG0

Woodland Trust Guide to Ancient and Notable Trees

This is a useful guide to recognising ancient, veteran and notable trees.
You can view or download it here:-

What-are-ancient-trees? From the Woodland Trust

The Tree Council

There are lots of useful resources here including a Tree Planting Guide and a Tree Health Update.  See:-

Tree Warden Resources

Woodland Trust Report

The State of UK’s Woods and Trees 2021

There is a link to this report here

The Street Trees Project

This is a Woodland’s Trust initiative to encourage the planting of trees along our town and city streets.

Street trees are our neighbours and old friends.

Read about it here

A Guide to planting street trees

Here is a how to guide from Manchester City Council for planting street trees.

A guide to planting street trees

Articles about Urban Trees

From the Conversation website

https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/urban-trees-58019

Who Speaks for the Trees?

This is a Green Party video introduced by Caroline Lucas and including Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economics) and Richard Benwell (CEO Wildlife and Countryside Link.
The three of them take turns reading The Lorax, a Dr Zeus book written 50 years ago.

You can watch the video here:-
the reading of The Lorax starts at about 4.56 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYGkFzVw14g&t=2s

Bradford Council give green streets and neighbourhoods a priority

Homes and Neighbourhoods:  A Guide to Designing in Bradford

This is a 62 page document that was adopted by Bradford Council as a Supplementary Planning Document in February 2020.

It sets out eight priorities for homes and neighbourhoods in Bradford District.  The first priority is “Choice” of affordable homes.  

The second priority is “Green:   green streets and spaces and connected networks of green infrastructure”

You can access the guide from this Bradford Council Page

It is worth looking at pages 9, 10 and 11 which introduce the 8 priorities.  Note that the Green priority includes “ Successful neighbourhoods have green streets and pleasant spaces.  The benefits will be that people’s health will be improved as they are inspired to spend time outdoors; homes will have an attractive outlook and air pollution will be reduced.”

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