Tree planting data
Dear Sheffield City Council,
Since the 2020 financial year can you publish.
1. All documents related to where to plant trees?
2. Long term management plans for planted trees?
3. Survival rates of planted trees?
Yours faithfully,
Abdul Hai
Dear Abdul Hai,
Thank you for your request for information relating to tree planting data
which we received on 25/01/2023.
This has been logged as a Freedom of Information Request and will be dealt
with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reference number for
your request can be found above.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that we must respond to you
within 20 working days, by 22/02/2023, but we kindly ask for your patience
as we anticipate that there may be a delay in some cases. Please do not
hesitate to contact us at the email address below if you have any queries.
Yours sincerely,
Sheffield City Council
PO Box 1283
Sheffield, S1 1UJ
Email: [1][Sheffield City Council request email]
From: Abdul Hai <[FOI #941649 email]>
Sent: 25 January 2023 14:17
To: FOI <[Sheffield City Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Tree planting data
Dear Sheffield City Council,
Since the 2020 financial year can you publish.
1. All documents related to where to plant trees?
2. Long term management plans for planted trees?
3. Survival rates of planted trees?
Yours faithfully,
Abdul Hai
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Dear Abdul Hai,
Thank you for your request for information relating to tree planting data
which we received on 25/01/2023.
Please find Sheffield City Council’s response to your request below and
attached.
1. All documents related to where to plant trees?
• Sheffield Tree and Woodland Strategy
[1]https://democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/docum... and
Woodlands 2.pdf
• Community Forestry Tree Planting Strategy Map (attached). Used to
guide where trees are most needed in terms of ecological and ecosystem
benefits as well as indices of multiple deprivation.
• Highways Maintenance: Please see the Sheffield Street Tree Partnership
Strategy which can be downloaded from this link: [2]Managing and
looking after street trees | Sheffield City Council This is the only
document that influences where trees are planted from a highways
maintenance perspective.
2. Long term management plans for planted trees?
• Please refer to the Sheffield Tree and Woodland Strategy
[3]https://democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/docum... and
Woodlands 2.pdf
• Community Forestry: All heavy standards have gator bags attached for
their first season, are added to a watering map, and are watered for
the first two years as well as young tree maintenance such as
re-staking, mulching and formative pruning etc. Thereafter their
health is monitored by the Community Tree Officers during routine tree
safety surveys. Any commemorative heavy standards which fail are
replaced once.
Whip plantations are remulched in their second year.
Orchard plantings are also remulched in their second year.
Replacements are only planted where funding is available (usually from
external sources).
Highways Maintenance: When new trees are planted, they are added to a
watering programme for the first 2 years of their life and we also carry
out young tree maintenance such as re-staking, mulching and formative
pruning. Any trees that fail to establish are replaced with a new tree.
Once the trees are established they form part of an inspection process
where they are routinely inspected by a qualified arboriculturist who will
raise any works to the tree that they see fit.
3. Survival rates of planted trees?
• For our Forestry estate we do not have specific figures, however
restocked sites are maintained (fencing, shelters, pesticides, beat-up
etc) and audited by FC and UKWAS to ensure compliance with approved
management plans.
• Our Community Forestry Team have provided the attached which provides
2022 data on survival rates of recent Trees4Cities funded planting in
2020-2021. We do not currently hold data on survival rates for all
trees planted by the Community Forestry Team.
• Highways Maintenance: For trees planted since April 2020, the survival
rate is 97.2% - this includes the felling of failed/vandalised new
plantings.
If you have any queries about this response, please do not hesitate to
contact us.
The information provided in this response is available for re-use under
the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0. The terms of the OGL can be
found [4]here. When re-using the information, Sheffield City Council
requires you to include the following attribution statement: “Contains
public sector information obtained from Sheffield City Council and
licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.”
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Kind Regards,
Sheffield City Council
PO Box 1283
Sheffield, S1 1UJ
Email: [6][Sheffield City Council request email]
From: FOI
Sent: 27 January 2023 15:01
To: Abdul Hai <[FOI #941649 email]>
Subject: Re – Freedom of Information Request – Reference – FOI /
2022-23-1247
Dear Abdul Hai,
Thank you for your request for information relating to tree planting data
which we received on 25/01/2023.
This has been logged as a Freedom of Information Request and will be dealt
with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reference number for
your request can be found above.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that we must respond to you
within 20 working days, by 22/02/2023, but we kindly ask for your patience
as we anticipate that there may be a delay in some cases. Please do not
hesitate to contact us at the email address below if you have any queries.
Yours sincerely,
Sheffield City Council
PO Box 1283
Sheffield, S1 1UJ
Email: [7][Sheffield City Council request email]
From: Abdul Hai <[8][FOI #941649 email]>
Sent: 25 January 2023 14:17
To: FOI <[9][Sheffield City Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Tree planting data
Dear Sheffield City Council,
Since the 2020 financial year can you publish.
1. All documents related to where to plant trees?
2. Long term management plans for planted trees?
3. Survival rates of planted trees?
Yours faithfully,
Abdul Hai
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