Trees for Cities

One year ago, a violent mudslide devastated the San Antonio district of La Paz, destroying or critically destabilising more than 50 homes, housing 79 families and leaving over 300 people injured.

Independent charity Trees for Cities has called for a commitment from candidates at the general election to a ten percent increase in the urban tree canopy over the next forty years.

The tree planting charity Trees for Cities has been working in Southwark this month to plant over a thousand fruiting hedges and trees along the Green Dale cycle route.

On Saturday 27 March, the charity Trees for Cities and Tower Hamlets Council return to Braithwaite Park, for another year of plantings.

Local residents and schoolchildren joined Trees for Cities and Tower Hamlets Council at street tree plantings in Stepney Green on 16 March.

Local residents and joined Trees for Cities and Tower Hamlets Council at street tree plantings in Stepney.

The tree planting charity Trees for Cities will be working in Southwark to plant over a thousand fruiting hedges and trees along the Green Dale cycle route.

National tree-planting charity renovates borders and plants trees on south London estate

Localised urban flooding could be alleviated by cost-effective urban tree programmes, research compiled by the charity Trees for Cities suggests.

Local councillors and school children will be joining Trees for Cities at street tree plantings in Cold Harbour and Rush Common on 1 and 3 March as part of a 175-tree programme of plantings for the area.