Issue - meetings

To advise Members of updates relating to the scheme to provide free trees to Broxtowe residents.

Members considered the updates relating to the scheme to provide free trees to Broxtowe residents.

It was proposed to allocate 750 native trees as part of the Free Tree Scheme for 2022/23 at a cost of £4.75 per tree. To help offset the cost, the possibility of obtaining sponsorship for the Free Tree Scheme would be explored.

Incentives to join the Green Rewards Scheme would be developed to link the scheme to the Climate Change Strategy and Green Futures Programme. The importance of the collective approach to Climate Change and the benefits that planting a new tree brings would be emphasised.

It was confirmed Hawthorn trees would not be part of the Free Tree Scheme and that all trees had different values with carbon offsetting.

RESOLVED that 750 native trees be provided and that options for sponsorship of the scheme be explored.