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BTC/120/2017 - Tree benefits; the missing part of the street tree cost benefit analysis equation. Blog for ICF (February 2017)

Sheffield was widely hailed as one of Europe’s greenest cities, but it is rapidly gaining an international reputation as the place where they are felling street trees on an industrial scale.   Local democracy seems to be unravelling before an international audience as the wishes of local communities are ignored and healthy trees with decades of life left in them are felled causing significant loss of tree benefits.  It is a political problem and it will be for the politicians to find a solution, with issues way beyond the remit for tree experts to resolve.  However, in the melee for the high ground, tree management principles are being misapplied as Sheffield City Council clamours to justify its actions, and that certainly is a matter where tree professionals can assert authority.

 

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