We recommend setting a tree canopy cover target to support the Council’s Climate Emergency Action Plan. The Woodland Trust supports the UK Committee on Climate Change’s recommended increase in UK woodland cover from the current 13% of land area to at least 19% by 2050.

The Woodland Trust supports this policy. In particular, we welcome policy to prioritise the use of locally native species and the retention of existing trees (point 8), for to connecting existing green infrastructure corridors and seek to create new ones (point 9), supporting appropriate new tree planting (point 10) and wildlife passages (point 11).


We recommend setting a tree canopy cover target to support the Council’s Climate Emergency Action Plan. The Woodland Trust supports the UK Committee on Climate Change’s recommended increase in UK woodland cover from the current 13% of land area to at least 19% by 2050.