£250,000 tree planting project starts in Hartlepool

Hartlepool Mail

Thirty-five trees were planted around the edge of the King George V Playing Field and the Central Bank Field, both in Hartlepool, as part of a multi-partner project to increase the town’s low tree coverage.

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00:00Hi my name is Roddy, I'm the Senior Development Manager at Trees for Cities and we're delighted

00:10to be here launching our Tree Equity for Hartlepool project with the council today.

00:14Trees for Cities is the UK's only charity which focuses just on getting trees into urban areas

00:19and we've been working with the council for about the last 12 months to pull this project together

00:23and we're delighted to be starting a two-year initiative which will see trees planted, new

00:27jobs created and multiple other partners coming together to make sure that it's a success.

00:32We're going to be working with the community to make sure that they're involved and have the

00:35opportunity to volunteer and we're very excited to be putting trees into Hartlepool, working with the

00:40community and growing the urban forest across the town. Hi my name is Gary Allen, I am the Chair of

00:47the Adults and Community Based Services at Hartlepool Borough Council. I'm here today at King George

00:52the Fifth Field in Hartlepool where we are launching the Trees for Cities initiative across Hartlepool

00:58where we are starting to plant many more trees across Hartlepool for the benefit of the community.

01:03It's all part of a £175,000 initiative partnership with Trees for Cities, Hartlepool Borough Council

01:09and other partners. We've secured £250,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to kick start this

01:16project and we have been working with people of Hartlepool, the local community, to increase the

01:22tree canopy across Hartlepool by about 10 hectares over the next few years which is really important

01:27to the people of Hartlepool for their mental health, for their physical health, it's better for air quality

01:34and it's just better for people's general well-being as well.

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