How can we ensure that street trees are regarded as assets, part of our critical infrastructure, rather than as liabilities?
One of the keys is to ensure that planting is carried out in the correct way to support tree establishment and avoid some of the common concerns expressed by highways departments asked to adopt them.
TDAG was invited to produce technical working drawings for street trees in a number of typical scenarios/common locations in both new streets and retrofitting in existing streets with and without SuDS. Civic Engineers have produced the construction drawings and it is intended that they provide supplementary guidance for the revised Manual for Streets and also to support the street tree planting requirements of the National Planning Policy Framework and local design guides.
Chair
Jim Smith MICFor
Urban Forestry Adviser, Forestry Commission
Presentations
The challenges for existing streets
Robert Huxford – Director, Urban Design Group
Why highway engineers welcome technical planting guidance
Hen Abbott – Gloucestershire County Council
Getting the specification and contractual/technical drawings right
Stephen O’Malley – Founding Director, Civic Engineers
Partners
Institute of Highway Engineers & Institute of Chartered Foresters
Additional Details
Ticket Type 1 - Standard
Ticket Price 1 - Free
