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Oct 2021
Last Updated: 19/10/2021
Plans to plant 1,800 trees across Harrogate and Knaresborough
The new trees will form part of the new White Rose Forest project for North and West Yorkshire, which will be one of 10 community forests in England.
Trees in the nearby Nidd Gorge.
Harrogate Borough Council has outlined plans to plant around 1,800 trees in Harrogate and Knaresborough.
The council identified Bilton Fields in Harrogate and Conyngham Hall in Knaresborough as key places to increase canopy cover and biodiversity.
The new trees will form part of the new White Rose Forest project for North and West Yorkshire, which will be one of 10 community forests in England.
Government funding to the tune of £3.7m will enable 218 hectares of trees to be planted - 17 hectares of which will go to Harrogate and Knaresborough.
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Oak, hornbeam, hazel, alder, cherry, crab apple and other native trees would be used if the council goes ahead with the project as planned in the 2021/22 planting season.
The tree planting season runs between November and March in the UK.
Harrogate Borough Council has opened a public consultation into the tree planting project, which has a deadline of November 7 for feedback.
The first White Rose Forest trees were planted in the Harrogate district last year in Nidderdale by the Rotary Club of Harrogate, Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Ashville College.
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