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Another 22 trees planted with the help of local community

Chris

12/12/2024 9:40:07 AM

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Children and staff from local schools enjoyed a morning of tree planting in Scartho as they  took part in Greening Up Our Place,  a community programme aimed at increasing the number of trees in North East Lincolnshire.

 

The community programme is part of the Council’s Tree Strategy, which sets out NELC’s approach for managing and protecting the existing tree population, increasing the number of trees in North East Lincolnshire, and for promoting the significant benefits that trees have in society.

 

It aims to give the residents of North East Lincolnshire a high quality, sustainable environment, which ties in with the Council’s Natural Assets Plan. The winter tree planting programme has just got underway.

 

Twenty two trees were planted at Quantock Park by children from Fairfield Academy and Springfield Primary School. They joined volunteers from local groups, Scartho in Bloom and Scartho Wombles, who kindly gave up their time to plant together, along with Lincolnshire Co-Op’s community development coordinator, and Ward Cllrs Ron Shepherd and Cllr Dan Humphrey. Children at Springfield Primary also took part in an Educational Trees Assembly.

 

The Tree Strategy is supported by two successful funding bids to the Forestry Commission’s Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) and Urban Tree Challenge Fund (UTCF), which will continue to be used to support the Council’s tree planting efforts in 2025/26 to improve canopy coverage across North East Lincolnshire. Some boroughs, including East Marsh, West Marsh, Sidney Sussex, Immingham, and Croft Baker have as little as 2% tree coverage.

 

Cllr Henry Hudson, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Net Zero, said: “A big thankyou to everyone who took part in the recent tree planting. We have many more events like this planned over the coming weeks to increase the Borough’s tree coverage and it is wonderful to see these young children getting involved in such an important project.”

 

To find out more about Greening Up Our Place visit https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/keeping-our-area-clean-and-safe/tree-planting/

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