Brent Council's response to a Freedom of Information Request LINK (converted to an Environmental Information Request) has revealed that in the period 2019-24 1,356 trees were felled and only 762 planted.
How many of the latter survived is not stated. The record for a counci that has declared a Climate Emergency is not very sastifactory.
The full request and not very full answer is reproduced below. For ease I have marked Brent Council's answer in bold:
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Thank you for your information request received on 12/06/2024. This request is being handled under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
I can confirm that Brent Council holds the information you have requested.
Your request and our responses are set out below:
Please could you provide information under the FOIA for the below;
1. How many trees has the local authority, its contractors or other organisations funded by the council planted in the borough between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2024, and how many trees have been removed in the same timeframe? Where known, please also provide information about the number of trees planted on land the Council has made available to other parties for tree planting. Please provide information in a table with the headings/format below.
- Number of trees planted by the council, its contractors and/or other organisations funded by the council
- Where known, number of trees planted where the council has made land available to other parties for tree planting
- Number of trees removed2019/20 - 415 felled 464 planted
2020/21 - 192 felled 90 planted
2021/22 - 258 felled 69 planted
2022/23 - 217 felled 83 planted
2023/24 - 274 felled 56 planted
For the calendar year 2023 there were 135 (plus) trees planted in parks
2. What are the council's tree planting targets for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2030? How many trees does it intend to plant in the borough over this period (either by the council, its contractors or other organisations funded by the council) and how many does it expect will have to be removed? Where known, please also provide information about tree planting targets on land the council has made or intends to make available to other parties for tree planting. Please provide information in a table with the headings/format below.
- Targets for tree planting by the council, its contractors and/or other organisations funded by the council
- Where known, targets for tree planting on land the council has made or intends to make available to other parties for tree planting
- Expected number of trees to be removed2024/25
2025/26
2026/27
2027/28
2028/29
2029/30
For the calendar year 2023 there were 135 (plus) trees planted in parks. A difficulty in providing information is the wide range of tree sizes that the Parks Service manages, from seedlings to mature trees. While the total structural tree canopy may possibly be increasing, the numbers of trees planted or removed can be complicated also by the numbers of trees that arise naturally or are removed naturally.
We do not hold any estimates or targets for trees to be planted, or removed by Parks, for future years up to 2029/30 therefore this is a refusal under regulation 12(4)(a) under the EIR 2004 for this part of your request.
7 comments:
Brent's Climate Emergency Planning in action 😡
That's why the parks are in such a crap state, all hot air no real substance to anything they claim, just lip service, labour all over, god forbid the electorate in the neighbourhood keep voting thses people in, a disaster on every front.
All rubbish no action
One of the reasons that I, and others, opposed Brent's plans for 1 Morland Gardens was that they wanted to destroy the Community Garden (with around 20 mature trees) by the busy crossroads at the top of Hillside in Stonebridge, and replace it with a nine-storey block with a few small trees outside.
That went against both their Climate and Environmental Emergency policy and Air Quality Action Plan. It seems that Council Officers either don't know, or choose to ignore, the Council's own policies, and that the Cabinet doesn't bother to enforce the policies they have "championed".
Just got Barry Gardiner's latest leaflet through the door, so many received from him - this latest leaflet states 'Our Planet, nothing more important'.
How is the paper usage, ink usage and energy used to print and deliver these leaflets good for the planet???
He apparently checked glacial science at the North Pole helping to destroying the planet by flying there!
And he apparently set up the Congo Basin Forest Fund whilst doing NOTHING to stop the latest planning application to build in our vitally important local green space Barham Park!
The huge tree that stood at the junction of Cecil Avenue and High Road, outside Copland School had a TPO (Tree Preservation Order) placed on it many years ago. Brent allowed Kier to build Ark Elvin Academy on Copland Fields and in place of the old school build 250 Flats now under construction. What happened to the Tree with TPO? Cut down without a thought as it would interfere with the Developers plans. So a TPO in Brent means nothing. There were beautiful trees sited at Brent House which all disappeared when the Developer came along and built 250 flats, and landscaping is poor and has just provided a few twiglets as a token for their brutal eco damage.
Don't forget all the mature trees that will be cut down in London Road for the new SEND school - why can't they design these new buildings around these existing mature trees, any architect could do that successfully.
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