Tuesday 6 December, from 5pm, Charles Street room 12.0.06
The Sheffield street tree crisis continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. Sheffield is renowned the world over as one of the ‘greenest’ and well-wooded industrial cities in Western Europe. Urban trees, and particularly street trees, deliver huge benefits to society and especially in parts of towns and cities where there are only limited greenspaces. One important function is the delivery of flood mitigation and climate proofing.
However, the privatisation of local authority services, and responsibilities, has triggered an unexpected crisis in its management of urban street trees – and this recently reached a new low with the arrest of peaceful demonstrators trying to protect their roadside trees.
Professor Ian Rotherham will be providing a talk on the latest developments on Sheffield’s Street Trees.
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