We plant trees each year on highway verges and public open spaces.

Tree planting requests

Contact us if you would like a tree to be planted within the highway verge or public open space outside your property.

Our tree planting budgets are limited, but we prioritise in replacing trees where significant ones have been removed for safety. We also plant in green open space areas where currently no trees exist, to increase the tree population within the borough.

Tree planting season: November to March

The tree planting season is between mid-November to late March. This is when we usually start our planting projects, during National Tree Week.

Newly planted tree maintenance

All of our newly-planted trees are included in a 5-year post planting maintenance programme where they are tended, watered and weeded. This ensures that the new tree puts on good root growth to maintain health and vigour as the tree develops.

Recycling of timber and wood

Where deemed cost effective, we re-use timber and woodchips in our parks, open spaces and country parks for use as mulch on shrub beds, creating woodland paths (trim trails) and to make seating, fence posts and even wood sculptures. Timber and branches from our tree work are sometimes purposely left safely on site to provide a potential habitat for wildlife. Where safe to do so, we often create potential habitats for bats and woodpeckers by leaving 'standing' dead trunks which these protected species use for protection as well as maternal roosts and nests.