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Sheffield is one of the greenest and most wooded cities in Europe and the greenest city in the UK. The city is proud of its rich variety of urban parks, woodland, countryside and other green spaces which are extremely popular destinations, attracting more than 25 million visits each year.Sheffield’s...Read more »
Councillor Lewis Dagnall, Cabinet Member for Environment and Streetscene, said:"In this, the week of Remembrance Day, I am confirming that we have developed a plan to retain 32 of the 35 war memorial trees that were originally earmarked for replacement. The three that will still be replaced, on West...Read more »
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 ...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...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 S...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 park...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 th...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 »