Bristol Tree Forum 🍃💚🍃
@BristolTreeFora
We are a voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the planting and preservation of trees in and around Bristol's wonderful urban forest.
It has been raised before by Mark Ashdown bristol247.com/opinion/your-s…
Reflections on the Judicial Review. - and why it should have been avoided. 'We need to take a stand to protect our history and our heritage' bristol247.com/opinion/your-s…
Our request for trees on Yew Tree Farm to be protected with a TPO has been successful - as per this Pinpoint image - maps.bristol.gov.uk/pinpoint/ - (using an old 2016 aerial image). Here are the trees we have mapped - bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecode/…
'Baltic Wharf - Biodiversity Gain Plan (10 April 2025) information request' whatdotheyknow.com/request/baltic… via @whatdotheyknow To replace the trees lost to this development, 107 more trees need to be planted (in addition to the 162 already agreed) to avoid a net loss of biodiversity.
The development of Bristol Zoo Gardens is proceeding regardless, even though the evidence of the number trees on the site was deeply flawed making the BNG evidence unreliable. Here are our comments on the latest conditional application - 25/12792/COND: bristoltreeforum.org/wp-content/upl…
First kill your tree...It has been lying there for a week, unwatered. Heve the others they have planted been watered 😳
Paul Wood's excellent book - Tree Hunting - 1,00 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities has just landed - thestreettree.com/.../tree-hunti… WeI particularly appreciated this section in the Bristol Section about the tree at the sadly-now-closed Bristol Zoo Gardens site.
TODAY’S THE DAY - Judicial Review hearing begins…. Thank you to all who have supported, donated and made this legal challenge possible, esp the experts at @BristolTreeFora. We will be arguing hard to stop the horrendous destruction planned for #BristolZooGardens. 🌲🌳
'The provision of Biodiversity Net Gain on Council-owned land.' whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_pr… via @whatdotheyknow
Good luck @SaveBrisGardens The judicial review started today into the decision to redevelop the former Bristol zoo site in Clifton as a housing complex. "It's completely the wrong plan for the wrong site." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… @GeorgeFergusonx @BristolCivicSoc @BristolTreeFora
This bill is a disaster for the environment. Part III must be abandoned now.
It’s not a matter of the left vs. the right – the case for nature needs to be continually made against a complex political backdrop. @Dieter_Helm speaks to @EstelleBBOWT about why the Government's P&I Bill is a wake-up call to everyone who cares about the state of nature.
‘This is not an environmentally friendly government’ I agree completely ⬇️
It’s not a matter of the left vs. the right – the case for nature needs to be continually made against a complex political backdrop. @Dieter_Helm speaks to @EstelleBBOWT about why the Government's P&I Bill is a wake-up call to everyone who cares about the state of nature.
Excellent work. You can see those trees on the NLS individually marked (which is unique to the 1880s OS map series, only trees over a certain circumference were counted outside of woodland): maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/si…
Green Party calls on Labour to rule out building on Brislington Meadows: bristolgreenparty.org.uk/green-party-ca… Thanks for your support. However, Brislington Meadows has been an SNCI for years and has never lost its status. We pointed this out ad nauseam before and during the appeal.
Bristol's nature is being exported to far-away rural fields before our eyes. We need to stop this. We have submitted a question to the Environment and Sustainability Policy Committee when it meets on 29 May 2025: bristoltreeforum.org/wp-content/upl…
‘... the trees taking longer to remove than anticipated due to the strength of their roots ...’ Who’d have thought! The trees were perfectly sound and stable and should never have been removed. Such vainglorious folly! bristol247.com/news-and-featu…
