Response A1346489

Response to request for information

Response date

10 March 2022

Request

Please detail the number of trees that have been cut down by your council in the last 3 years. Break down the figures by year and tree species. Please detail the number of trees that have been planted by your council in the last 3 years. Break down the figure by year and tree species.

Response

The public free tree scheme has supplied (supplied too and planted by member of the public):

• 2018/19 = 1386 total trees; by species = 742 Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) and 644 Field Maple (Acer campestre) to 724 addresses
• 2019/20 = 4161 total trees; by species = 2,016 Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris) and 2,145 Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) to 2,204 addresses
• 2020/21 = 1,929 total trees; by species = 873 Crab Apple and 1056 Hazel trees to 1003 residents;
• 2021/22 = 1,200 total trees; by species = 579 Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) and 621 Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) delivered to 631 addresses.

Through the Parish and Community tree scheme we have supplied :

2018/19 = 149 trees to 21 parishes and communities;

• 10x Alder (Alnus glutinosa);
• 11x Aspen (Populus tremula);
• 3x Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana ‘chanticleer’);
• 18x Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris),
• 20x English Oak (Quercus robur);
• 25x Field Maple (Acer campestre);
• 6x Large Leaved Lime (Tilia platyphyllos);
• 6x Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata;
• 1x Bird Cherry (Prunus padus ‘Abertii’);
• 4x Prunus Pandora; 45x Wild Cherry (Prunus avium);
• 3x Whitebeam (Sorbus aria);
• 1x white willow (Salix alba).
  
  

2019/20 = 210 trees to 22 parishes and communities;

• 24 x Alder (Alnus glutinosa);
• 8 x Aspen (Populus tremula);
• 15 x Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris);
• 36x English Oak (Quercus robur);
• 32 x Field Maple (Acer campestre);
• 7 x Large Leaved Lime (Tilia platyphyllos);
• 38 x Small Leaved Lime (Tilia cordata);
• 45 x Wild Cherry (Prunus avium);
• 5 x White Willow (Salix alba).

2020/21 = 146 trees and 300 hedging plants (Hornbeam) to 17 parishes and communities.

• 7x Alder (Alnus glutinosa);
• 13x Aspen (Populus tremula);
• 2x Bird Cherry (Prunus padus);
• 26x Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris);
• 34x English Oak (Quercus robur);
• 17x Field Maple (Acer campestre);
• 3x Large-leaved lime (Tilia platyphyllos);
• 8x Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata);
• 1 + 300 hedge Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus);
• 14x White Willow (Salix alba); 21 x Wild Cherry (Prunus avium).
  
  

2021/22 = 161 trees to 14 Parishes and Communities

• 2x Alder (Alnus glutinosa);
• 4x Aspen (Populus tremula);
• 2x Bird Cherry (Prunus padus);
  5x Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris);
• 35x English Oak (Quercus robur);
• 30x Field Maple (Acer campestre);
• 3x Hazel (Corylus avellana);
• 5x Large-leaved lime (Tilia platyphyllos);
• 33x Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata);
• 3x White Willow (Salix alba);
• 24x Wild Cherry (Prunus avium);
• 7x Common Whitebeam (Sorbus aria);
• 8x Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus).
  
  

Trees removed: 21/22 3x Goat Willow at The Hook (replanted within scheme above).

 

From our estates team

Trees planted 2019-20

• Beech - 50
• Cherry - 12
• Hawthorn - 270
• Hazel - 25
• Lime - 1
• Oak - 1
• Rowan - 1

Trees planted 2020-21

• Blackthorn - 60
• Cheery - 72
• Hawthorn - 30
• Hornbeam - 7
• Lime - 42
• Maple - 62
• Oak - 42
• Rowan - 2
• Sweet chestnut - 1

Trees planted 2021-22

• Birch - 1
• Cherry - 13
• Hawthorn - 120
• Hornbeam - 4
• Lime - 1
• Liquidambar - 1
• Maple - 18
• Oak -1
• Pear - 2
• Rowan - 2

Trees felled 2019-20

• Alder - 1
• Ash - 15
• Beech - 1
• Cheery - 8
• Dead/not identified - 11
• Elder - 1
• Elm - 1
• Hawthorn 8
• Horse chestnut - 1
• Lime - 1
• London plane -1
• Maple - 10
• Poplar - 4
• Scots pine - 1
• Silver birch - 4
• Sycamore - 2
• Whitebeam - 5
• Willow - 3

Trees felled 2020-21

• Cherry - 4
• Elder - 1
• Elm - 6
• Hawthorn - 3
• Lime - 1
• Maple - 2
• Not recorded - 68
• Sycamore - 4
• Group - 1

Trees felled 2021-22

• Cherry - 1
• Conifer - 1
• Not recorded - 68