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The first of 100 war memorial trees has been planted in Weston Park as part of the city’s commemoration of the centenary of First World War.The remainder of the first phase of plantings will see one large English oak tree established in 31 city and district parks, and avenues of smaller lime trees p...Read more »
10 January 2018 More than 1,200 young trees will take root along Sheffield’s streets this winter as the annual tree planting season continues.Sheffield is one of only a handful of local authorities in the UK who are benefitting from a fully-funded provision to replace street trees on a one for one b...Read more »
13 December 2017 Sheffield City Council has today decided that, for the first time, it will guarantee in perpetuity the replanting of any war memorial tree that has to be replaced and will plant 300 new memorial trees in the city’s parks. This comes following a council decision to replace 41 ex...Read more »
13 November 2017 The first trees have been planted to mark the start of the city’s tree planting season. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Anne Murphy attended the ceremony held in Burngreave. Over 8, 000 large and small trees will be planted from now until March 2018. Scouts from the 76th Sheffield St...Read more »
5 October 2017 Five years on from the start of the Streets Ahead contract and questions around the street tree replacement programme continue to circulate.In recent years, several misconceptions about the programme have distorted some of the truths, with the long-term benefits becoming increasingly ...Read more »
15 September 2017 Sheffield City Council has announced it is planting 300 memorial trees and will work with residents for ideas on where they should be planted and how they should look. The memorial trees will honour veterans from Sheffield who lost their lives in conflict and be planted in parks ...Read more »
21 August 2017 A project is underway to bring one of the UK’s rarest native trees back to Sheffield. The black poplar is a declining species and, according to the Forestry Commission, is the country’s most endangered timber tree. There are fewer than 1,000 mature trees in the wild, in the UK, ...Read more »
Tree works are commencing on Rivelin Valley Road as part of the Streets Ahead street tree replacement programme. Of the 528 trees on Rivelin Valley Road only 23 are set to be replaced as part of the programme- around 4% of the total number of trees on the road.Our household surveys told us that of t...Read more »
3 July 2017 Sheffield streets are home to an increasingly varied street tree stock thanks to the Streets Ahead contract.As part of the 25 year highway maintenance contract around 6,000 of Sheffield’s 36,000 street trees are set to be replaced by the end of 2017, with 600 additional trees being plant...Read more »
19 June 2017 Volunteers donated their time over the last tree planting season to help Sheffield City Council’s community forestry team plant more than 8,600 trees in 40 locations.In the 2016-17 planting season, which ran from October 2016 to March 2017, a total of 8,658 trees were planted, including...Read more »