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SALFORD CITY COUNCIL TO SPEND £160,000 ON TREES
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Star date: 6th October 2020 COUNCIL AND DEFRA TO SPEND OVER £700 PER TREE FOR SALFORD Salford City Council is set to agree to spend £159,951, its share of £344,902 match funding with DEFRA, on planting 489 large trees on verges and in parks across the city. It works out at over £700 per tree to plant, protect and maintain each tree. The trees will be planted, Salford Council states, at sites across the city that have least tree cover. Full details here...
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Salford is to get 489 new large trees, at least two metres in height, at various sites with the least tree cover across the city. Salford Council has been successful in its bid to DEFRA and the City of Trees which will pay half of the £344,902 requested, with the Council match funding it with £159,951, while the rest will come from small grants and volunteer time via the City of Trees. With a total cost of £344,902 for 489 trees it works out at just over £700 per tree, although this includes the cost of buying the tree, planting it and 'basic protection'. The Council will be borrowing the initial cost for the trees under its capital budget and after three years, the cost of managing and maintaining them will be met through the revenue budget. "The identified tree planting sites across the city include those with the least tree cover and where they can make the most significant impact wherever possible" states a Council report "There are significant limitations and complications planting trees in road-side verges due to the presence of underground services and highway sight lines so not all desirable locations are viable. Where this is the case, trees have been planted in neighbouring parks."
Main photo shows a tree being planted in Salford's Kersal Moor
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 18:04:47 on 26 February 2021 |
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| This cost of £700 per tree should be the subject of an official investigation by the Audit Office as it’s a scandalous waste of public money, you could go to the dearest garden centre and get the same number of trees for £100 each, get the council staff to plant them and save a fortune.
I am in favour of planting trees, we have some in our garden but these costs cannot be justified and if they are the same as the ones being planted around Walkden, the £700 each is a complete rip off especially as on a proposed development near us some trees will have come down to make way for the development. |
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Robin Hood wrote
at 12:31:13 on 26 February 2021 |
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| Rather interesting that Salford Council are spending £700 per sapling while being so keen on chopping down mature trees. Already this year they have cut down 6 lovely trees in front of the Civic Centre, while they are currently in the process of chopping down dozens of trees in Swinton to ironically build a 'greenway' (a new cycle path that is as wide as a small road).
This is before we mention the acres of wood and grassland that was lost in the past 2 years to the huge new housing development next to Campbell Rd woods.
Salford Council really are a disgrace.
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bob wrote
at 11:48:48 on 09 October 2020 |
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| Rossi is right about Traffords trees. Even their less posh areas like Partington have got lots more trees than we have.Our Ray however has nothing to fear about his Riverside ward constituents. These people always vote labour, no matter what. It is like a religious obligation to them. For them to vote anything else would be like admitting they were stupid in all the previous elections when they voted labour.It is like all those who keep faith with the church even when they knew there was thousands of paedo priests in it that were covered up by the church. Faith in the church and the labour party go hand in hand in Salford. We can all rattle off a few names of the religeous wing of the Salford Labour party. I can thing of at least a dozen of Rays voters straight off the top of my head, who hold views that are totally obnoxious to the labour high command.Views about immigration, capital punishment, repatriation of ethnic minorities,use of nuclear weapons on terrorist states,lynch mob justice for sex offenders, yet they all vote labour. Would Ray ever write on an election leaflet" please do not vote for me if you hold views like these".? never in a million years. Ray would never say here even,if you hold racist views, do not vote labour because labour does not want the vote of people like you.As long as you tick the labour box, thats all labour care about.They like stupid ignorant people. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 21:00:45 on 08 October 2020 |
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| Say what you want about me Ray, you fat bastard, but if I was you I'd get looking after my constituents in Riverside, before they get sick of you and vote you out.
With regard to trees, that is something that the former Conservative Council of Trafford knew all about. Trees are all over Trafford, Stretford, Urmston, Davyhulme and Sale. Although now that Labour are in there, I predict a lot of tree culling from the Marxist muppets that are running the place. Ten years from now, Trafford will be like a cross between the Moon, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 20:17:20 on 07 October 2020 |
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| Rossi,how can a self-hating,aŕse-licking,right wing
bot be "born" in Hope Hospital? |
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Tree loving Darren born at hope hospital wrote
at 15:40:29 on 07 October 2020 |
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| I was born at hope hospital and brought up in Salford and I care about my city, Salford. I do care about most things in life including trees and in Salford lots of lovely trees have been took down this year. Behind canon green court on Blackfriars about 20 trees went early this year for a 8storey appartment block. On adelphi street a new housing estate of about 30 houses called valette square took some greenspace and about 10 trees away. Salford university are building more students blocks and taking about 100 trees and more land from Peel park. On the crescent a tower block is planned for the land to the right of the working class movement library where more trees are going to go and many more housing developments are planned for Salford with trees being torn down involved. Save the trees. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 12:21:33 on 07 October 2020 |
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| Rossi, The fact you were born here is irrelevant. By your logic, nobody is "from" Bolton as they are mostly born in Farnworth at Bolton Royal.
Being born here gives you no special privilege and it shouldn't do either. It's a meaningless metric. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 22:39:27 on 06 October 2020 |
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| I'm a cynic. I can't help but think that these trees aren't for the benefit of Salfordians, people like me who were born in Hope Hospital in 1969, but the interlopers. The people who are moving in to the new apartments that are springing up everywhere. No one can tell me that the wankers in the Civic Centre give a toss about genuine Salford people. I know that they don't. This'll be for the benefit of the latte mocha slurping class that can afford mortgages on a five hundred grand flat. What a disgrace this council is. What a shower of 💩 What we Salfordians need is change. Not the same tired old bollocks that we get from the pseudo socialists. What we need is a new Mayor. Someone with proven ability. What we need is Felse. God bless you Michael. |
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wrote
at 21:43:12 on 06 October 2020 |
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| Great news! More trees! Keep the trees we have got too! No more chopping down beautiful healthy and health giving trees! |
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Alice wrote
at 19:00:17 on 06 October 2020 |
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| Money spent in trees is never a waste. A tree gives off oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide so working for our benefit. In addition they provide shelter from unpleasant weather. They maybe fruit bearing trees so providing health giving vitamin C or nut bearing trees with victims B . They provide homes for birds which are the source of human pleasure and many creatures which help with pollination. Every garden could have an Apple tree which once upon a time was the norm. Building of special items like musical instruments result from trees . And planting trees counteracts flooding. This programme to plant trees does seem expensive and I challenge that. There are programmes which freely give away trees. If oak trees are needed we have plenty of saplings to give away on Kersal Moor. Get volunteers pulling up and transportIng to empty ground...costs nothing, Or create some new jobs. The oak trees will last you for at least 100 years . |
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ROSSI wrote
at 18:22:34 on 06 October 2020 |
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| About the only good comment you've ever made Darren. Bravo. |
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Bob wrote
at 17:16:39 on 06 October 2020 |
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| 3 or 4 years ago,i went for a walk with girlfriends dog in peel park.At the top end behind the library, they were chopping down lots of lovely old trees. I spoke to the lads doing it.They said they thought it was wrong, but it was part of the new landscaping.Not been there since so I don't know what this landscaping looks like,and to be honest, I don't care, I am past caring.Let our morons in charge do what they like.While we're down that neck of the woods at the Uni, has anyone heard how the court case is going across the road, about the old police station site? It should be over by now? |
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The Rossi Fan Club wrote
at 17:06:54 on 06 October 2020 |
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| Brilliant news for Salford - more trees = more wildlife and better air quality. Great that Salford Council are supporting the city of trees charity who are after all based in Salford. |
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wrote
at 16:59:44 on 06 October 2020 |
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| We used to have a pile of lovely trees behind our flats at Canon Green Court.The council could have put tree preservation orders on them and got about a dozen lovely trees for nothing. Salix chopped em all down and built a big block of gentrified flats on them. |
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Leo Spencer wrote
at 16:01:50 on 06 October 2020 |
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| Fair enough, Great for the environment.... But unfortunately this city council cannot even maintain overhanging trees on paths and yes, I do report the issues, so come on city council get your ass in check And continue maintaining and clearing the paths |
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Tree loving Darren born bred wrote
at 16:01:30 on 06 October 2020 |
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| Meanwhile on peel park, Salford university about 7 years ago got rid of lots of lovely trees and lovely greenbelt in peel park to build about 4 blocks of students digs.. Now Salford uni are getting rid of about 100 trees on peel park again and building more students blocks. I thought parks was protected. Peel park is shrinking because of Salford uni and the council. |
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