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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Down in the dip on Beaver Hill Road in Handsworth, stands the towering figure of Sheffield's biggest black poplar. Standing just on the edge of Shirtcliffe Woods, it's a haven for wildlife and a well known figure to those who live in the area.Access to Nature Officer, Catherine Nuttgens told us the ...Read more »
Thursday 10 November 2016 Climbing to the top of Wincobank Hill in Sheffield it's impossible not to gasp at the breathtaking views over the city. The site, which is home to ancient woodland and a whole load of history, dominates the skyline of the Lower Don Valley.We paid a visit with Access to Na...Read more »