Sheffield the greenest city in England (not!)

[vanzandt56 10]

How ironic is it that the supposed greenest city in this country is felling trees at an alarming rate? 10 healthy mature trees were butchered to extend a perimeter fence across from where i work in Attercliffe and driving home today they have felled another dozen (at least) on the central reservation on Penistone road apparently to plant new ones!

[Eater Sundae 12]

Provided they replace trees that are in inapprppriate places with others in suitable places, then I'm all for it

 

Edit. Also trees don't live forever. (Not necessarily the case here but in general). Newer trees can be a better choice.

Edited June 1, 2014 by Eater Sundae

[Dan_Ashcroft 10]

Young trees also grow quicker and produce more oxygen. Better for the environment

[mc55 10]

I think the Penistone Road trees have had to be removed for the road widening / bus lane works that are currently taking place. I'm hoping that the beautiful meadow area by Hillfoot road will remain - be lovely if they made similar reservation areas as interesting and beautiful

[muddycoffee 10]

I'm all for removal of the huge trees. They should be replaced with more attractive garden trees which do not damage the roads, houses and drains.

 

It is all well and good to be proud of having trees. But the people who planted these inappropriate forest giants a century ago left us an expensive legacy which is costing the current tax payers an absolute fortune to put right.

[Blackbeard 10]

How ironic is it that the supposed greenest city in this country is felling trees at an alarming rate? 10 healthy mature trees were butchered to extend a perimeter fence across from where i work in Attercliffe and driving home today they have felled another dozen (at least) on the central reservation on Penistone road apparently to plant new ones!

 

The wheel has just been reinvented

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1312193

[taxman 12]

Young trees also grow quicker and produce more oxygen. Better for the environment

 

But a mature tree will provide a habitat and food for far, far more insects than a young one, thus greatly contributing to biodiversity and the food chain.

 

Trees will always have to be managed and inevitably some will always have to be cut down. There are ways to mitigate against any habitat loss though, by not cutting down at this time of the year when birds are nesting and insects are most vital, replacing non-native trees with native ones or by leaving the tree as deadwood once cut down.

 

There seems to be an idea gaining credence that if you remove a mature woodland but plant a field of saplings elsewhere then it balances things up. It's the sort of argument developers put forward when they want to bulldoze an ancient woodland to make way for a petrol station.

 

Who cares whether a tree is a hunched and fissured coppiced oak, worked by people for centuries, or a sapling planted beside a slip road with a rabbit guard around it? It's like replacing an Old Master in the National Portrait Gallery with a children's copy.

[autumn 10]

But a mature tree will provide a habitat and food for far, far more insects than a young one, thus greatly contributing to biodiversity and the food chain.

 

Trees will always have to be managed and inevitably some will always have to be cut down. There are ways to mitigate against any habitat loss though, by not cutting down at this time of the year when birds are nesting and insects are most vital, replacing non-native trees with native ones or by leaving the tree as deadwood once cut down.

 

There seems to be an idea gaining credence that if you remove a mature woodland but plant a field of saplings elsewhere then it balances things up. It's the sort of argument developers put forward when they want to bulldoze an ancient woodland to make way for a petrol station

 

 

Who cares whether a tree is a hunched and fissured coppiced oak, worked by people for centuries, or a sapling planted beside a slip road with a rabbit guard around it? It's like replacing an Old Master in the National Portrait Gallery with a children's copy.

 

Ditto ( well said ,too short )

[cookingfat50 10]

it depends on what you mean the greenest city if you mean rubbish then not the greenest there's rubbish all over especially fly tipping. if you mean greenery as in trees grass etc Sheffield as been voted the greenest city in the uk more parks, woodland, grassed area's than any other city

[longleyman 10]

it depends on what you mean the greenest city if you mean rubbish then not the greenest there's rubbish all over especially fly tipping. if you mean greenery as in trees grass etc Sheffield as been voted the greenest city in the uk more parks, woodland, grassed area's than any other city

 

This information is in Wikipedia ;There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city,[3] and an estimated 2 million trees, giving Sheffield the highest ratio of trees to people of any city in EUROPE.

[autumn 10]

Just driven past made me feel sad !!

[allwednesday 11]

Nearly every bypass and major road in Sheffield is lined with trees even though it's not nice to see them being felled it will not make any difference Sheffield is very green in the tree department.