TREE PLANTING CALL IN GREENER MIDDLESBROUGH DRIVE

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FREE trees are up for grabs as part of a pioneering drive to make Middlesbrough a greener town.

Green-fingered residents can pick up free trees to plant in their gardens and local community as part of a Council strategy to help tackle carbon emissions.

The young ‘whips' - trees in the first stages of growth - are being handed out for free by the Council in partnership with Middlesbrough Environment City.

They're available to any Middlesbrough resident or group to plant in gardens, community spaces or other land agreed by the Council.

A maximum of six trees are available per resident, with community groups able to request up to 20 per group.

Middlesbrough Council planted more 700 trees last year as part of its wide-ranging Green Strategy that is in line with the government's national and international plans to tackle climate change.

Earlier this month council teams planted fruit trees at Pennyman Primary School in Middlesbrough in conjunction with Thirteen Housing Group, to teach budding environmentalists about the importance of being sustainable.

Trees can provide shade and absorb and store CO2 from pollution which could help to make a big difference to Middlesbrough's carbon output.

The Council's strategy aims to reduce carbon emissions for the town to zero by 2039.

Councillor Dennis McCabe, Middlesbrough Council's Executive member for Environment, said: "We're really excited to invite people to come forward to pick up the tree whips and get planting.

"It's not only great for the environment, but it's a low-cost way to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

"We're doing some incredible work as a council to be greener for current and future generations, and we'd love people of all ages to get involved with tree planting in their area, please spread the word far and wide in your community."

Middlesbrough Mayor Andy Preston added: "As the lungs of our environment trees couldn't be more important, and that's why we can never have enough of them.

"I set a target of planting 10,000 trees across Middlesbrough, and initiatives like this are a great way to meet and then far exceed that number."

  • The trees will be available to pick up for one week from Thursday, December 3 to Thursday, December 10, coinciding with National Tree Week which starts on Saturday, November 28.
To arrange collection of free tree whips, call the council's Environment Services team on 01642 300508.
 

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When I lived in Green Lane the council persisted in removing mature trees which were on the grass verges and not replacing them.
Whinged about it, but had no effect.
 
Nationally there has been a massive debate and controversy about removing urban trees. It is particularly bad in Newcastle and Sheffield.
Michael Gove finally brought in a new "partial" protection for urban trees in 2019.
 
Is this the same council that cut down a wooded area in something like Marton or Nunthorpe a few years ago. Contractors turned up on morning barriered off the wood and levelled it. They had no one ready to build on it but felt it was a more attractive site for building without the wood that was well used by local people.

If the want to think about the environment they should stop building on green land while the town centres are becoming empty and decaying.
 
Of course they would argue that they are not the same council - different mayor, different party in power. And yes I know about that Marton woodland as I was there when they made the film demonstrating to keep it and I also provided testimony that it had been a council nursery when planted in the 1980s because I lived opposite - but it is a housing estate now it was built on straight afterwards.
- If you had a choice where would you buy a house in a brownfield former industrial or council house site or in the surburbs etc? You need to also ask yourself that question I think.
 
The brownfield areas are never going to improve if they keep letting them decay. Andy Preston wants more people living in Middlesbrough centre. One of few things I agree with him about. It's the only way to save town centre shopping and business.
 
The brownfield areas are never going to improve if they keep letting them decay. Andy Preston wants more people living in Middlesbrough centre. One of few things I agree with him about. It's the only way to save town centre shopping and business.

I honestly can’t think of anything worse than living in any town centre.
 
If you drive along Cargo Fleet Lane you will see that small housing estates have been springing up over every pocket of previously undeveloped land through east Middlesbrough.
 
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