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Community Planting Streets

Community Gardens Pilot

Backfill newGeocode field for projects with postcode or lat and long fields

Find out more about the process, Terms and Conditions, safety, tree protection and maintenance

Planting Streets - how will it work?

How will it work?

What happens after you have nominated a street and what you need to take into consideration to work safely.

What happens next?

Find out more about this project to help you green your street

Community Planting Streets 

How does community planting streets work?

Nominate your street for community planting by clicking on the map &nbsp;(HERE -LINK) &nbsp;and drop a pin where your street is.There will then be a few questions where you can tell us a few simple things about the street - such as how many local people have signed up to do some street planting or whether there&rsquo;s a local gardening group already in place.

What can we plant?

Once we&#39;ve reviewed nominations and chosen initial trial streets for this project we&#39;ll work together on co-designing the planting, giving you advice on what plants would work.&nbsp;We&#39;ll mostly recommend planting simple plants such as bulbs or wildflowers as these are least likely to impact the tree.

Where can we plant?

We can&rsquo;t allow planting closer than 30cm from the trunk of a tree as this would compromise the tree roots. As a rough measure, tree pits need to be bigger than one paving slab.We can consider expanding tree pits, but with limited funds at the moment we will need to list most tree pit expansions on our project bank for future funding. Please do put your nominations in though so we can record these and look out for funding opportunities.

Safety

You will need to follow some basic safety measures while planting, which are particularly important when working near roads. You will also need to agree and sign up to the terms and conditions, the Risk Assessment and safety guidelines and take full responsibility when working in public spaces.We will conduct ground surveys to check that there aren&rsquo;t any utilities such as water or power that would cause danger to you or be impacted by planting. You will receive advice on planting depths and distances to keep you and the tree safe.