Physical Actions
The physical actions are primarily physical albeit influenced by social and economic factors. As with the Outcomes, they stop short of specific technical definitions. So, for example, they would not need to define the type of community ownership and involvement as, a 'member-owned co-operative' rather than a 'Community Interest Company', or the precise 'prioritisation' of trees in relation to utility and transport infrastructures.
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Communities are supported to plant and manage fruit and nut trees in publicly accessible greenspaces. |
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Communities are supported to plant and manage woodlands focused on recreation and wellbeing in publicly accessible greenspaces. |
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Households are supported to plant trees in their private gardens, helped by local government, social enterprises, and charities. |
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Green roofs and rooftop gardens including appropriately sized trees are introduced on new developments by default, and retrofitted where possible on existing buildings. |
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Trees are prioritised in the layout of streets, pavements and under-street utilities like broadband cables. This makes more space for trees but can reduce parking and mean moving utilities from under the pavement to under the road, which can mean more disruption to transport due to maintenance. |
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More space for trees is created by increasing the number of minor and residential roads that prioritise walking, cycling and recreation.
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Existing woodlands are expanded and connected, and new woodlands are planted, with a focus on creating large, interconnected reserves for nature conservation. |
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Agroforestry is the integration of trees into farming systems while maintaining agricultural production. Farms are encouraged to plant lines of trees on fields, so that they have trees alongside livestock or crops, including fruit and nut trees. |
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Tree planting is targeted towards encouraging rainwater to soak into the soil, for example through reducing paving around trees, and choosing species that best slow down the flow of water. |
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Tree planting is targeted to connect existing and new green spaces, for example through ‘pocket parks’ and hedgerows, providing green space for people and allowing wildlife to move through the city better. |
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Regarding the 'Large national woodland reserves...' When running the tool or sharing results, it is useful to clarify where this new woodland might come from. It should be noted that some urban local authorities do not have large areas that are not built-up, so do not contain spaces easily turned to large woodlands. These would either need to contribute to planting in other local authorities, or a change of urban land use, such as restoration of brownfield land. Others, contain very significant amounts of peri-urban land within their existing boundaries.
In 'Tree-lining streets prioritised over parking and utilities', this refers to the currently common practice of putting under-street utilities under the pavement or grass verge of a street. This allows maintenance of the utilities to avoid disruption to traffic. Planting additional street trees, whether on the verge and pavement or in kerbside build-outs, might require the utilities to be located under the carriageway - which this action would indicate support for. This could apply to both major and minor roads.
The 'Change minor streets to pedestrian and cycle zones'
action could include substantive changes, such as converting sections of
through-road to cul-de-sacs, with substantial space created for trees and other
uses. It could alternatively include more modest traffic calming build-outs. It does not involve closing main roads, but if the participants agree this would be
beneficial, the discussion could take in flagship action on main roads, such as
Paris removing cars from one bank of the Seine.
