Barking and Dagenham Council secured GLA funding for the development of a new strategy for tree planting across the borough. This project was developed as an annexe to the borough’s Parks and Open Spaces Strategy.
Client and Contract Period
GLA/London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
May to November July 2017
Project Objectives
As part of its London Environment Strategy, the GLA has established ambitious targets for an increase in tree canopy cover across the capital as a means of addressing urban warming and air pollution. The GLA provided funding to Barking and Dagenham to develop a new strategy for tree planting in the borough’s parks and open spaces to provide strategic best practice guidance to other London boroughs. Barking and Dagenham commissioned Arkwood to develop this strategy as an annexe to the borough’s Parks and Open Spaces Strategy.
Issues Challenges and Outcomes
In the course of preparing the Parks and Open Spaces Strategy, Arkwood prepared masterplans for ten of the borough’s most important parks. The masterplans expressed the principal objectives of the strategy in respect of the flow of social, environmental and economic benefits accruing from green infrastructure. The masterplans identified opportunities for new tree planting initiatives across all of these spaces, resulting in 11 hectares of new woodland, orchard or biodiversity planting and 1,643 individual trees equal to 16.4 hectares. The total area of potential tree planting for the borough was 27.4 hectares. The study also identified opportunities for tree planting on routes linking greenspaces, anticipating Arkwood’s later work on a new Green Infrastructure Strategy for Barking and Dagenham
Services
- Survey and analysis
- Strategic landscape planning
- Landscape masterplanning
