‘Trees’ seem to be the solution to many of the physical placemaking and health challenges in our urban environments. The NPPF calls for all new streets to be ‘tree-lined’; trees can help to reduce increased summer temperatures and, combined with SuDS, the impact of the increasing heavy rain events; people are more inclined to walk and cycle on tree-lined routes. BUT, how do we ensure that we retain, protect, plant, and establish trees in such a way that trees can deliver their many benefits
over their long lives? Most importantly, how do we manage our green and grey infrastructure to reduce its embodied carbon?
This session will show how successful outcomes can be achieved.
Chair: Amy Burbidge, Head of Master Development & Design at Homes England
Trees as infrastructure: an update on trees for cooling research and valuing trees for the ‘infrastructure’ services they can provide.
Dr Kieron Doick, Head of Urban Forest Research Group, Forest Research
Dr Madalena Vaz Monteiro, Urban Forest Research Group, Forest Research
Deciding how to plant street trees: right reason, right place, right tree, right way
Jim Smith, Urban Forestry Adviser, Forestry Commission
Protecting trees on development sites
Jeremy Barrell, Managing Director, Barrell Tree Care
Embodied carbon in infrastructure
Richard Quartermaine, Head of Sustainability, Urban&Civic
