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Council responds to further questions on its street tree replacement programme

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 »

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Residents of Sheffield to decide where to plant tree memorials to honour war veterans

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 »

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Project brings rare black poplar tree back to Sheffield

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 »

Our plans for street tree replacement on Rivelin Valley Road

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 »

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Streets Ahead ensures street tree species diversity for years to come

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 »

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More than 8,600 trees planted by community forestry team

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 »

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Trees breathe new life into urban green space

29 March 2017 Students from Al-Huda Academy, along with staff from the English Institute of Sport and our own Lord Mayor of Sheffield, helped Community Forestry staff plant new trees in Darnall yesterday (Tuesday 28 March).The trees were “heavy standard” trees and a mix of oak, lime, silver birch, T...Read more »

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Street trees in Sheffield: Commitment to work better with residents to get the job done

19 January 2017 Sheffield City Council is today announcing a series of commitments to the people of Sheffield as part of the Streets Ahead street tree replacement programme.Streets Ahead is a city wide highways maintenance contract between the council and Amey to upgrade Sheffield’s roads, pavements...Read more »

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Major new tree planting project gets underway

13 January 2017 Around 8,000 trees are set to be planted at different sites across Sheffield over the next few weeks, to create new “urban woodlands” for the city.In partnership with the Trees for Cities organisation, 7,500 trees will be planted at three parks in the south-east of the city; at Kenni...Read more »

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Consultation extended on Sheffield's Draft Trees and Woodlands Strategy

30 November 2016 Sheffield's draft trees and woodlands strategy will help us plan how we manage more than two million trees across Sheffield for the next 14 years. Your views are really important and we want to hear from as many of our residents as possible, so we have extended the consultation peri...Read more »