New Tree Planting Starts Green Revolution

Here a row of Metasequoia trees go in on Hoylake Rd Bidston Wirral.Over 200 tree pits have now been dug along Wirrals streets.Part of 375 trees being planted this year and over 600 being planted by March 2015 in needy Wirral streets lacking in greenery.From grey to green the project is  greening Wirral and linking people to training and education and employment as it emerges in the nearby Wirral Waters enterprize zone.

    

    Here a new tree is installed with a grille base ready for the surface to be inlaid into the grille.
    Note the watering tube.

     Trees stretching down Hoylake Road from Bidston Village Rd
      See location mapped here:  http://goo.gl/maps/8Z4C0



   Beaufort Rd looking down towards Bidston Moss. Mapped here http://goo.gl/maps/AkSIy

Hoylake Road looking towards Bidston Village Road.Mapped here http://goo.gl/maps/nJm6O

Illchester Park on Stanley Rd looking towards Birkenhead North Station and West Float

Mapped here http://goo.gl/maps/FkiVQ

Laird St shops looking towards Birkenhead Park. Mapped here http://goo.gl/maps/ZUNk9

    

Tree Pits start to go In on Wirral Streets

As the winter weather recedes however briefly this week and for once the sun shines, so it does on the progress of the planting of up to 375 new street and green space trees along Wirral streets in Bidston and St James and Birkenhead south of the Wirral Docks at West and East Float.

We hear from one happy resident commenting on infrastructure funding in the Wirral Globe 

'bloodtub' says... 

 Tue 26 Feb 13"  more trees ,it will look nice"

We hope so! With over 12 different varieties of trees going in there's still more opportunities before March 2015 to choose you shade - not only of cooling effect trees on those hotter summer days but of colourful spring summer and autumn shades.

With funding from the Department of Business Innovation and Skills The Mersey Forest is making the best use of the Newlands Project through the stuardship of The Forestry Commission as part of its Setting The Scene For Growth Programme.Linking areas of employment need with areas of upcoming employment whilst encouraging active travel modes through walking and cycling.The Local Sustainable Transport Fund part funded by The Department of Transport is helping get people to work but targeting polution hotspots with improved opportunities for alternative transport through improved bus services and local linking infrastructure like cycle lanes, bike hire and travel plans.The Mersey Forest is using LSTF funds to find out what makes residents more likely to use alternative travel modes to get to areas of Work, Education and Training.

It'snow fun as green space planting gets under way!

Young people from the Princes Trust braved wintery conditions at Birkenhead Park's Boothby Ground to plant small woodland trees to help soak up some of the water on a wet area of the park.
Find out more about the project of make a group request on our Wirral Tree Planting Project page on facebook here: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WirralTreeGrowingProject/.

Reducing the cost of maintenance in parks is definately a bonus as budgets are tight this coming year.Making a habitat for wildlife will help small birds and mammals forage and feed.

Where are we working?

The Wirral Green Streets and Green Infrastructure project is working in the following area.This can loosely be defined as the areas of least trees and greatest deprivation around the watery area now known as Wirral Waters.

This area covers some of the Council wards of Birkenhead and Tranmere , Bidston and St James and Seacombe.

Between 2012 and 2015 we want to link local communities with the East and West Float areas with avenues of trees and a network of green spaces planting with a mixture of fruit ornamental and larger leaved trees where appropriate.


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Growing Project Goes Live

The Edward Kemp Gardens Wirral Tree Growing Project kicks off this Monday at the community garden on Ashville Rd next to Birkenhead Park.

The Prices Trust will be helping create a permenent tree growing site so that trees can be planted in the community creating more woodlands and copses for members of the public to enjoy.

If you want to get involved with growing trees on the Wirral then follow the project on this blog or contact The Mersey Forest on 01925 816 217 ben@merseyforest.org.uk

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WirralTreeGrowingProject/

The Mersey Forest www.merseyforest.org.uk More From Trees

Local Sustainable Transport Fund Case Studies

Through Merseytravel The Mersey Forest is contributing over 8 kilometres of greened routes  in the Wirral to this  Department of Transport part funded project.

Read our Local Sustainable Transport Fund Case Studies of projects that The Mersey Forest has delivered in Knowsley and St Helens to help promote active modes of travel such as walking and cycling.

Wirral Council will be delivering sustainable walking and cycling routes that link new facilities such as the Bidston and Birkenhead North Park and Ride to Bidston and Birkenhead.The project aims to encourage residents to use low carbon forms of transport such as walking, cycling and joint bus travel to their local places of education, training or work.

Read more about The Mersey Forest's involvement in the project across Merseyside here.
See 'older posts' below for detailed plans of the proposed tree plantings.

Residents Turn Out To Endorse Planting Project

Braving a  winter's dark night residents from affected streets for the Wirral Green Streets street tree planting programme turned out on Tuesday to praise the project as plans were shown of the key streets affected by the programme.

Street tree planting will transform the routes into the borough from the west as the first trench of three years of spending.Aiming to plant around 600 trees and 9000 small woodland native trees in local green spaces.

 On Saturday 12th January residents turned out to see plans of the project.

Plans will be on show all this week next week till the afternoon of the 18th January at  Birkenhead Park Visitors Centre to see a display of the programme.(see plans in blog posts below)

One Wirral resident has e mailed us to say 'this is a brilliant idea and i'm a supporter of trees being planted in these Wirral streets......I look forward to seeing the new planting and watching the trees grow'