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:-
The Tree Council
There are lots of useful resources here including a Tree Planting Guide and a Tree Health Update. See:-
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.
Articles about Urban Trees
From the Conversation website
Prof Alan Simpson Inaugural Address
Alan Simpson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Forestry at Leeds Beckett University
Watch his inaugural address on YouTube.
It’s about Urban Forestry
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.
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.”