🌳Street trees reduce the amount of asthma related hospital visits 👩‍👦🚑

Studies looked at the correlation of asthma attacks and tree density - and saw a clear link between areas with lots of trees and lower rates of asthma attacks

Trees = healthy cities & healthy people 🌳🏙️😃

Where have all the trees gone?🌳❌

This street, like many others in the UK is suffering from the side-effects of off-street parking🚗. There is almost nowhere a tree can now be planted.

The impacts are many: a loss of visual amenity, no shade, suffers worse in heavy rain,…

Hiding in Plane sight
Look up from time to time you’ll be in for a treat...this a London Plane tree

🌳A hybrid – American sycamore + the Oriental plane
🌬️Known for its ability to tolerate pollution
🧥Bark = mottled pattern of green, white, and brown
📏Can grow up to 100ft

Traffic 🚗calming 🧘‍♀️trees🌳

Fact: cars drive more slowly on a tree-lined street.

These 3 interventions show the positive use of trees in the roadway:
🚸As part of a narrowed crossing point (Top)
🏎️ Within a chicane (Left)
🧑‍🤝‍🧑At a wide junction, narrowed to make it more…

Local residents planting clean air🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🌳🌳

The #Harrow community has joined forces with
@treesforstreets & London Borough of Harrow to help sponsor an extra 104 street trees this year - making a total of 404 trees in the past 3 seasons.

👉You can make it happen TreesforStreets.org

Wooden posts or trees? 🤔

All too often planners prefer bollards & other hard landscaping features. We need to think differently and incorporate more 'green’ into our built infrastructure.
#Bollards don’t make for healthier more liveable streets, trees do🌳

👉Trees for Streets

Something simple, like investing in a couple of 🌳🌳trees to add shade + interest outside a cafe makes a world of difference

A grey 'space' transforms into a verdant 'place' where customers can sit & watch the world go by ☕️🍷😎

🌳Trees = 💵Good for business👉Trees for Streets

Crazy paving! Paving over front gardens for 🚗off-street parking is a huge problem..

🌊Adds to local flooding
🌞Increases impact of heatwaves
❌Loss of visual amenity (ugly)
🌳🐞🐦‍⬛Loss of environment

Greener streets = quality of life. So time to review our planning rules..

Do trees ACTUALLY keep us cool?

With March breaking another temperature record, we thought we'd show you a video we made last summer

We went out on a hot afternoon & measured the ground temperature🌡️ 1. in the sun 🌞 & 2. under the shade of a tree🌳

The results say it all👇

Would you like a tree🌳outside your house🏠?

📌 Tap the location in our app
💻 Submit your sponsorship request
🔍 Your council surveys
🌳 If ok, a tree is planted
🚿 You even get to water it
👉 TreesforStreets.org🌳🌳🌳