Gloucestershire Plans to plant 35 million trees 'too ambitious'

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Council admits plans to plant 35 million trees by SLOTXO 2030 may be "too ambitious". Gloucestershire County Council agreed the pledge in October and published it in Corporate Strategy in FebruarySo far, the council has planted a total of 10,380 trees, the estimated number of trees per day needed to meet the target.

Cabinet member David Gray said: What is important is to carry out a quick and helpful procedure for planting trees. But he added that hedging was better for biodiversity.Opposition members criticized the Conservative-led council at a meeting this week.

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Paul Hodgkinson, leader of the Liberal Democrats, asked: "Can you tell us why you haven't been targeted until now and you will definitely reach 35 million?Mr Gray said the council had an "ambitious" tree planting program and was committed to planting more trees and making the district greener.

Whether or not we get to 35 million during that [period] or not, I think that might be too ambitious.We've set up a number of partnership agreements that we're talking to with people like the Woodland Trust, Forestry Commission and others, where a lot of new trees will be planted.

He said the "obsessive focus" on planting trees was useless. Although hedge planting is more effective in terms of biodiversity and carbon dioxide capture, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.